Wild Wild West: Critic Reviews

Ruled by increasingly ghoulish special effects, it leaves reality so far behind that its storytelling would be arbitrary even by comic-book standards, and its characters share no common ground or emotional connection.

The Wild, Wild West is a rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir - that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst.

Wild Wild West deserves only one wild.

Smith's hip-hop aloofness and Kline's Master Thespian routines don't mesh.

Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable.

There are six writers and eight producers listed in the credits. Is it any wonder that it feels like an amalgamation of mismatched bits and pieces?

Some very talented people stub their collective toes quite elaborately and expensively in Wild Wild West.

WILD Wild West is the movie that stole Will Smith's mojo!

Wild Wild West is hardly flawless, but it's lots of fun nevertheless.

This film is fun most of the time.

We never thought we'd miss Robert Conrad...

The most hollow of the recent Hollywood offerings.

Sonnenfeld's sardonic voice appears to have been trapped in the web of the giant iron spider that rampages through the last part of the film.

A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second.

...has style to spare, a few laughs and some imaginative touches. Also like 'Avengers' it has stars who look like they'd rather be somewhere else, a lack of verve and a script that takes the long road to nowhere.

This is not so much a review as an inquiry into memory, as I attempt to recover the one tiny redeeming virtue.

This monument to the vacuous excesses of chequebook cinema highlights the desperation of those who throw money at the screen hoping it will buy them a blockbuster.

The film is lean, but not mean, and entertains, mostly, from beginning to end.

Terribly lame humour don't help.

I recommend you suspend any whiff of disbelief and enjoy Sonnenfeld's hammy sci-fi Western, set in the late 1860s.

If every cloud has a silver lining, my lining is that my year-end worst list is one film closer to completion.

The sheer fun generated by the characterizations will provide enough entertainment value for the average moviegoer.

So we have a light comedy full of racial slurs and cripple jokes where the hero hunts down the mass-murderer who killed his parents.

Wild Wild West has six screenwriters and between them they couldn't come up with one good idea or one decent line of dialogue.

The plot and action are so preposterous that it's jarring when the movie tries to introduce serious business.