Although anachronistic and down right silly at times, I liked it. It was funny and entertaining.
U. S. Army captain Jim West (Will Smith) and U. S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline) are both after someone kidnapping scientists. They are thrust together as partners at the behest of the POTUS Ulysses S. Grant (also Kevin Kline). Their investigating puts them on the trail of an ambitious, polysyllabic, spurned confederate named Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). Dr. Loveless has a grand scheme to take the United States by force.
This was action comedy with a lot of retro and steam punk gadgetry. Instead of the cutting edge spy tools you'd see in 007 or "Mission: Impossible", Gordon and West were using the more rudimentary form of stuff we'd see today. "Wild Wild West" gets a lot of criticism, but I liked it. Sue me.
U. S. Army captain Jim West (Will Smith) and U. S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline) are both after someone kidnapping scientists. They are thrust together as partners at the behest of the POTUS Ulysses S. Grant (also Kevin Kline). Their investigating puts them on the trail of an ambitious, polysyllabic, spurned confederate named Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). Dr. Loveless has a grand scheme to take the United States by force.
This was action comedy with a lot of retro and steam punk gadgetry. Instead of the cutting edge spy tools you'd see in 007 or "Mission: Impossible", Gordon and West were using the more rudimentary form of stuff we'd see today. "Wild Wild West" gets a lot of criticism, but I liked it. Sue me.