Wild Wild West (1999)

In this movie interpretation of the TV series "The Wild Wild West", Will Smith and Kevin Kline play as federal agents assigned by President Grant to investigate the disappearance of some top scientists. They stumble over a tyrannical warlord discussing a plan to assassinate President Grant and give half the country back to Britain and Spain. (Movie takes place in the 1800s) Salma Hayek, who tells them that her father is one of the kidnapped scientists, teams up with them.

Now that the plot is out of the way, let me tell you why this movie is good:

- The Actors

- The cool gadgets

That's it, that's all. The acting in this movie could use a lot of improving, the actors themselves do a good job acting alone, but there is no chemistry between them, no eye contact, almost like they were each trying to solo the movie.

The bad guy, played by Kenneth Branagh, looks like this in the movie:

Yea, you're looking at it right, it is a guy with only half his body riding around in a steam powered wheelchair.

One of the running gags is that the Kline character can invent almost anything, right on the spot just like MacGyver. He rigs his train so that it has a spring trap that can shoot people into the air and have them fall through openings that appear in the roof and land perfectly in a chair. The spring trap defies the first law of motion in physics, but who cares right, it's a movie.

There is a gadget in the movie that the bad guys use; they put a collar on you with a small open section in the neck, and then they shoot heat seeking razor blades at you. You can run, but they always get beheaded. 

The Movie cost over $170 million to make, the most expensive film made in 1999. It looks like it too, the entire project looks like it was shot on green screen with mannequins, and then reanimated by the animation crew at Disney.

At the almost end of the movie, the bad guy transforms his train into an 80-foot tall mechanical tarantula and shoots out fireballs at the approaching towns destroying the buildings.

So to re-count, we have: a warlord chopped in half and riding around in a mechanical spider with an army of international saloon gals as his entourage (sorry, I forgot to mention them),

A threesome of badly united actors, great alone, yet horrible together,

And a lot of horribly induced physics and mannequin filled green screens. There is even a scene in the movie where Kline's character uses a dismembered head as a projection set to show Will Smith his plan.

So, as I said before, the only reason you should see this movie is if you like Will Smith or Kevin Kline, alone not together, or you want to see a bunch of really cool gadgets.

Here is the trailer to the movie from hell

Yes, this movie is on Netflix.

Sources:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/?ref_=nv_sr_1