It's embarrassing to watch, and even more embarrassing for the actors. You would not believe just how far the cast goes to make this limp material work. The screenplay, credited to FOUR writers, has the damnedest time to make any of the jokes funny. Fear not my good people, these are professionals up on screen, and they blew it. Scenes that make the audience gringe with fear, as if something wrong is with them. The plot is just a simple excuse to push the characters through endless scenes that give birth to no laughs at all. Along for the ride is a giant mechanical tarantula, President Grant, and the stunning, gorgeous, lovely, and just plain old hot Salma Hayek. Based in the television show running from 1965-1970, the simple plot tells the tale of a Civil War era federal marshal James West (Smith), who must team up with a weapons expert (Kevin Kline, at his most painfully unfunny) to thwart the evil plans of the villain, and legless, Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). "West" is finally the film that rests on Smith's comedic shoulders alone. I submit that these films were hits due to the films themselves, the writing, acting, directing, and not just because of Smith. "Men In Black" and "Independence Day" were gigantic hits, they even call the 4th of July "Big Willie Weekend" due to these successes. A film that will hang in the halls of all time bad event flicks. Teaming with his "Men In Black" director Barry Sonnenfeld, Smith has finally teetered over the edge and released an outright mess.
"Wild Wild West" clenches the title hands down this summer, and we still have eight weeks to go! The Will Smith phenomenon has now entered it's third phase: overwhelming ego project. There's a "Godzilla" every year, somebody has to be it.
The time when Hollywood trots out it's worst of the summer.
0 kommentar(er)
