Review of Will Smith: Wild Wild West

If you read the title here: "Will Smith: Wild Wild West", you know immediately the name of the singer, or I should say one of the singers or the rapper perhaps and also the name of the song. The latter is the same like the name of the movie this was made for. The film received negative reviews mostly, while the song did not attract such bad attention. But it's not too good either, not too bad either though. There is a short version out there and a long version and the long one runs for almost 7 minutes like it says here on imdb because it probably also includes a scene in which Smith' character had to save a damsel in distress from razor-sharp shurikens, machine gun fire (not very western is it?) and eventually a threateningly huge metal spider. And he succeeds of course. Just like he does with his rhymes. Maybe my rating here is also a bit subjective as I am not a huge hip hop fan. Probably preferred the Dru Hill parts overall, maybe also because my appreciation for Smith has gone south in recent years, but yeah that's another story and also has to do with his sons and wife. By the way, what happened to Sisqo? It's been almost 20 years since this was released. All in all, close call, but I give it a thumbs-down and if you still wanna check it out, just go with the song and do without the music video. Or skip it altogether because while it is not a failure, honestly you won't be missing much here.