Wild Wild West

A mess of a movie, mixing genres which don't blend well together. 

Director Barry Sonnenfeld was trying to emulate his previous hit, Men In Black, and relocating it to  post-civil war America. The story is quite simple: Two government agents have to stop a mad scientist who's working on a machine with which he means to take rule of the United States.

The dialogue is absolutely atrocious with not a single line worthy of comedy. The chemistry between Kevin Kline & Will Smith is hampered by this dialogue while the supporting characters don't fare much better.

Kenneth Branagh hams it up as the mad scientist and delivers probably the best performance of a bad bunch. Salma Hayek is merely in this to squeeze her body into corsets and look pretty.

The special effects range from average to terrible (for a big budget blockbuster it's quite unforgivable) and the theme song, despite being popular at the time, is absolutely horrendous (seriously, listen to the lyrics).

This might have been good as a Saturday morning cartoon, but as a summer blockbuster it falls way short of expectations.

3/10