Wild Wild West
The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a 19th century inventor-villain.
- Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
- Genre:Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Western
- Runtime:102 minutes
Cast
Will Smith : Capt. James West
Kevin Kline : U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon
Kenneth Branagh : Dr. Arliss Loveless
Salma Hayek : Rita Escobar
M. Emmet Walsh : Coleman
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The film opens in a Louisiana forest during the Reconstruction Era where a man, later revealed to be Thaddeus J. Morton, is running away from a lethal flying disk. Morton keeps running until it decapitates him. Soon after, a man with a small swiveling trumpet for an ear stands over his head and removes the disk out of the ground. At a railroad water station in Morgan, West Virginia, Captain James West (Will Smith), is hiding in a water tower, spying on a group of ex-Confederate soldiers working under the man with the trumpet ear, General “Bloodbath” McGrath. West arrives at the saloon where General McGrath (Ted Levine) and his band of soldiers are enjoying a raucous party. McGrath is seduced by an unlikely prostitute who attempts to hypnotize the general to divulge his plans.
West breaks in, but is stopped by the prostitute, allowing McGrath to escape. West fights off a number of McGrath’s men and finds himself with the prostitute, who unmasks his disguise to reveal himself as gadget-obsessed master of disguise U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline). The building is destroyed by a wagon full of nitroglycerin and the two escape. In Washington, D.C., West and Gordon meet at the White House with President Grant (also played by Kevin Kline), who informs them of the disappearance of America’s key scientists. Grant charges the two with finding the scientists within one week, before he inaugurates the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah. The two head to New Orleans on board The Wanderer, a luxury train fitted with an array of bizarre gadgets. Pursuing a lead, the two arrive in New Orleans at the mansion of Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh)—an ex-Confederate scientist confined to a steam-powered wheelchair—who is hosting a party for the elite of Southern society. West mistakes a female guest for Gordon in disguise, making a comic error that results in the guests leading West out for a lynching. Using this as a distraction, Gordon roams the mansion and comes across Rita Escobar (Salma Hayek), and rescues her from the house. West, tries to talk his way out of being lynched but is saved by an elastic rope, one of Gordon’s inventions, and escapes with Gordon and Rita on The Wanderer. Rita asks to accompany the two to rescue her father, Professor Guillermo Escobar.
Later, Loveless hosts a reception for foreign dignitaries to demonstrate his newest weapon: a steam-powered tank. The tank uses General McGrath’s soldiers as target practice, infuriating McGrath. Loveless then shoots Mcgrath, mortally wounding him. Gordon, West, and Rita arrive at the scene of the massacre and find the dying McGrath, who reveals one of Loveless’s past crimes: Loveless had used the tank to massacre a settlement of displaced slaves, including West’s family. Loveless boards his armored train and heads toward Utah with Gordon, West, and Rita in pursuit. Using his advanced locomotive, Loveless relocates his own train behind The Wanderer. West, disables Loveless’s train, but not before Loveless uses a locomotive-mounted cannon to stop The Wanderer. Rita, afraid of being recaptured by Loveless, accidentally releases sleeping gas, knocking out West, Gordon and herself. Read more
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