Stuck between a kid-friendly action blockbuster and an almost B-movie style, blaxploitation romp, this movie truly didn't know what to strive for. On the summer tent-pole side, the film features a giant steampunk spider and a Da Vinci-inspired flying machine navigating through a simple-minded plot. The other side of the coin is laden with crude adult-oriented jokes and imagery not suitable for a clean-cut Will Smith flick.

Right off the bat, the film starts up with a 70's centric opening, giving off a mindset of an average blaxploitation movie. Wild Wild West also seems to want to turn Will Smith into a lady's man, a task his character doesn't seem to take too much interest in, possibly to at least…

A spirit of the bizarre pervades this steampunk western oddity.

The films main fault is an inability to reach a constant tone. This actually first occurs in odd title sequence and continues onwards. The serious becomes too serious and the comedy sometimes fails. Puns are at times the order of the day but this is never pushed to the limit.

Wild, Wild West however never wavers into territory of the abysmal. Kline often lulls you into thinking he is about to settle for a lame gag before pulling out the real zing. Perhaps these doubts are not necessarily a great thing!

There are certainly interesting elements. The President is quite a character. The villain is particularly memorable saddled up with…

Back in the late 1990's, and well right up to today for that matter, there is something wrong if Will Smith can't deliver a good if not great movie. That may of never been any more true than during the mid to late 1990's. After his TV show The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air ended Will Smith's budding movie career went full steam ahead. Back then it was pretty rare that any actor from TV could make a successful leap to the big screen with only a handful of actors making the leap, for some reason since the dawn of TV it seemed you could either be a TV actor or a movie actor with TV actors never being able to…