The Wild,
Wild West
DOWN &
DIRTY:
Action/Adventure: Two government
secret agents try to stop a
madman and his plot to overthrow
the government in the post-Civil
War old West.
NITTY GRITTY:
Captain James West (WILL SMITH)
is a gunslinger who's hot on the
trail of General
"Bloodbath" McGrath
(TED LEVINE), a corrupt officer
responsible for various Civil War
atrocities. His trail leads him
into contact with U.S. Marshal
Artemus Gordon (KEVIN KLINE), a
master of disguises and
inventions who's also after
McGrath. McGrath gets away.
President Grant assigns the two
to work together. They run into
the diabolical genius, Dr. Arliss
Loveless (KENNETH BRANAGH), a
Confederate veteran who's missing
the lower half of his body. They
also meet the lovely Rita (SALMA
HAYEK), who tells the two agents
she's searching for her father,
one of many noted scientists
missing from across the country.
After several more encounters,
West and Gordon head back to the
old West. There, they must not
only deal with McGrath and
Loveless, but also his
eighty-foot tall, weapon-laden
mechanical transport vehicle
dubbed "The Tarantula,"
that he plans to use in a war
against the government.
THE ENDING:
West and Gordon use Gordon's
flying bicycle to chase after
Loveless who has kidnapped
President Grant. They drop onto
the back of the mechanical
tarantula. West fights a man with
swords for arms, then fights with
a man then seemingly made of
metal. He takes care of this guy
and then Loveless comes after
him. Loveless pins West down with
one of his mechanical 'legs.'
Gordon shoots another leg causing
the contraption to leak hydraulic
fluid and West escapes. Loveless
shoots at West, but hits a steam
pipe which causes the tarantula
to hang precariously over the
edge of a giant canyon.
Loveless and West are thrown to
the edge of the machine. Loveless
says West can kill him by pulling
a lever on his wheelchair but
West would kill himself. He then
says West is yellow.
West pulls the lever and they
fall. West grabs a chain hanging
from the tarantula, but
Loveless is killed.
WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT:
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