Review – Wild Wild West

Will Smith and Barry Sonnenfeld appear to be really desperate to recreate the charm that made Men in Black such a big success. They fall short. This rework of the old TV series that combined the western and the gadget-intensive espionage drama relies mostly on its expensive effects to carry the day. The acting is about what you’d expect for a big-budget action movie. The script, on the other hand, was abysmal. Particularly annoying are the long stretches in which Smith trades offensive jibes with the arch-villain (played by the ever-charmless Kenneth Branaugh). It has a couple of vaguely amusing parts, but not enough to justify sitting through the rest of it. See if desperate