1999 · action · adventure · comedy
Wild Wild West
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld1h 46m1999
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Our read: Wild Wild West (1999) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
- epic-stakes
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