Wild Wild West (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

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CAST: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek
DIRECTED BY: Barry Sonnenfeld
PRODUCED BY:
RATING: PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL:http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120891
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Western
DURATION: 107 minutes

Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines. (IMDB)

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Dolby, Widescreen, Closed-captioned
• Commentary by director Barry Sonnenfeld
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries: HBO First Look: It’s a Whole New West, The Gadgets: a behind-the-scenes look at the special effects, props and gadget used in the film, Dress For the West: a look at the film’s costumes and make-up, Hardly Loveless: meet the real women behind Loveless’ ladies
• Outtakes
• Music Videos: Wild Wild West by Will Smith, Bailamos by Enrique Iglesias, Music Video Newswrap
• Stills Gallery: Photos from the publicity archives
• DVD-ROM Features: The Steel Assassin Interactive Game, Artemus Gordon’s Mind Projection Theater revealing a trainload of behind-the-scenes clips, Genre Essays, Web Events & Chat Room Access, Original Theatrical Web Site, Sampler Trailers
• Widescreen anamorphic format

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I know of

DVD REVIEW:

Unfortunately, this film is known as Will Smith’s worst big-budget movie to end the 90′s.  Mixing the West with Sci-Fi was what people didn’t like.  Another would be the bad comedy and for Western fans who love historical accuracy and loved the original show, this one is far from the original and making it hip for today’s crowd.  Unfortunately, that’s where this movie fails to deliver.

Fortunately, for bad films we see very good DVD’s packed with special features and “Wild Wild West” delivers with documentaries, outtakes, music videos, DVD-Rom games and so much more.

I found the special features much better than the actual film itself.  As for the video quality, there are many artifacts and the audio quality is very good at digital 5.1.

You really have to enjoy this movie or have it because it was a gift from a friend who found it for sale or pre-reviewed. 

THE MOVIE: D+
THE DVD EXTRAS: A+
THE DVD OVERALL: C

Enemy of the State (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

MOVIE COMPANY: Touchstone Pictures (Disney)
CAST: Starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Jason Lee, Gabriel Byrne, Lisa Bonet, Barry Pepper, Jack Black.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by Tony Scott.
RATING: Rated R.
Internet Movie Database URL:  http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120660
TYPE OF MOVIE:  ACTION

Gene Hackman and Will Smith star in this suspense thriller where nonstop action meets cutting-edge technology. Robert Clayton Dean is a successful Washington attorney who – without his knowledge – is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency to a political murder. Instantly, every aspect of Dean’s once normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives, who wage a relentless, ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence.

DVD EXTRAS:

Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Theatrical trailers for Armageddon, The Rock and Con-Air.
• Production featurette
• Filmmaker’s featurette
• Widescreen letterbox format

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I could find.

DVD REVIEW:

I’m going to be honest with you.  When this movie was released and I saw the trailer, I didn’t want to see it.  Maybe it was because I thought it was a team of Will Smith and Gene Hackman and I couldn’t imagine the chemistry for the two as actors but I didn’t watch it.

After seeing it at Blockbuster for $14.99, I figured what the hell, I’ll give it a try.  My brother said it was good and so I’ll check the movie out.

After watching it, here are a few words and sentences that describes my feelings of this movie:

WOW!

SUGOI! (Japanese for “The best!”

Perhaps the movie that shows Will Smith’s true talent as an action movie star!

As you can see, I loved this movie.  It’s very good!  From start to beginning, your attention will be focused on this movie!  Tech people and those who wonder about privacy issues will definitely love this movie.  It’s all good!

Will Smith was truly wonderful in this film.  The ending was very well done.  Gene Hackman did a wonderful job as well.  The chemistry as actors between the two worked well.  It was also nice to see Lisa Bonet in this film.  I haven’t seen her since The Cosby Show and shows during that time.  John Voight plays a very well done evil political figure.

The video of this film is very good.  The audio is very good as well!  It’s one of the things that kept my attention was the sounds and to hear my subwoofer go boom quite frequently!  I’m just disappointed that I didn’t see it and many others didn’t as well.  This film should of done better in the box office but perhaps there was too many competing movies at the time.

As for the extra’s, there is quite a few!  It was pretty cool to see the featurettes, the trailer and trailers for other movie.  The only thing is the featurettes are too short and for a movie this big…there had to be deleted scenes right?  Anyway, I wish they included the deleted scenes and much more to the extra’s but nevertheless, they did include really cool featurettes.

Again, this movie is brilliant!  If you find it on sale at your video store, buy it!  Highly recommended!

THE MOVIE:  A
THE DVD EXTRAS:  B-
THE DVD OVERALL:  A-

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