Wild Wild West - Will Smith in
The film opens at a railroad water station in Louisiana in 1869, introducing one of the main protagonists, trigger-happy Cpt. Jim West (Will Smith), spying on the actions of a group of ex-Confederate soldiers working under General "Bloodbath" McGrath (Ted Levine), a personal nemesis of West. Following a runaway ride on a wagon filled with bottles of nitroglycerine, West arrives at a saloon where General McGrath and his rag-tag band of rebel soldiers are enjoying a raucous party. McGrath, whose head is fitted with a small swivelling trumpet to replace a missing ear, himself is seduced by an unlikely prostitute who, having seen McGrath's men carrying a kidnapped man out of the building, attempts to hypnotize the General. West breaks in and attempts to kill McGrath, but is stopped by the prostitute, allowing McGrath to escape. West fights of a number of McGrath's men, and finds himself in a Mexican standoff with the prostitute, who unmasks his disguise to reveal himself as the second protagonist, gadget-obsessed master of disguise US Marshal Artemis Gordon (Kevin Kline). The two escape from the saloon as the wagonload of nitroglycerine tumbles down a nearby slope, destroying the building.
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