Review of Wild Wild West (1999) by Keanna H — 02 May 2012
Yeah, it's bad. It's SOOOO bad. Campy!.. But BAD. Only thing I thought good: Kenneth Branagh should play Southerners more -- his turn as the villain was hilarious.
Meh. I have to say more.
If this movie was about anything else but about being a remake of some television series most people of my generation hadn't heard of, and if it didn't have a stupid western setting to begin with, and if it wasn't starring *Will Smith* in a Western-cyberpunk (I dunno) - craziness extraganza that became this movie, it might have been a good movie. As is, it doesn't even sound all that bad on paper, except for it being about Will Smith being in a Western... (I'm gonna keep picking on that -- I'm not even sure if black people even fit in Westerns: I say this as a black woman who finds Westerns on the whole inflexible, boring, and racially and socially speaking, obsolete). The problem is actually WATCHING IT -- the concept isn't exactly the worst thing in the world, it's the execution -- it's horrendously bad. It's not like it's terribly directed, too, because it wasn't -- the mixture of genres and disparate ideas and concepts -- the movie on the whole just doesn't work.
This review of Wild Wild West (1999) was written by Keanna H on 02 May 2012.
Wild Wild West has generally received mixed reviews.
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