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Movies that feel likeWild Wild West (1999)

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

If you loved Wild Wild West, the closest films we have are Men in Black (1997), Shanghai Noon (2000) and Taxi (1998). All three share Wild Wild West's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008).

πŸ… 16% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Barry Sonnenfeldkineticepicwittyplayfulcerebralgritty
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Men in Black
1997 Β· dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.3action Β· adventure Β· comedyParamount+

Barry Sonnenfeld working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Shanghai Noon
2000 Β· dir. Tom Dey
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· comedy Β· western

The same preoccupation in both: cowboy

The difference: Trades the momentum of Wild Wild West for an angle of its own

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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Taxi
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
β˜… 7action Β· comedy Β· crimePrime Video

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Wild Wild West does

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.2action Β· adventure Β· comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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Ra.One
2011 Β· dir. Anubhav Sinha
πŸ… 62%β˜… 5adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Cerebral action, and it commits to that

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 Β· dir. Michel Hazanavicius
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7crime Β· action Β· adventure

Adventure with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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The Time Machine
2002 Β· dir. Simon Wells
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6science fiction Β· adventure Β· action

Common ground: steampunk

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· comedy

Both are built on the same subject: action hero

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realises that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

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Evolution
2001 Β· dir. Ivan Reitman
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· science fiction Β· action

Kinetic comedy in both cases

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

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Men in Black: International
2019 Β· dir. F. Gary Gray
πŸ… 23%β˜… 5.6comedy Β· science fiction Β· actionParamount+Starz

Science fiction built on scale, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.

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Small Soldiers
1998 Β· dir. Joe Dante
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.3comedy Β· adventure Β· fantasyPrime Video

Both lean on wit more than on western

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 Β· dir. Jonathan Liebesman
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8science fiction Β· action Β· adventureParamount+

Action with a pulse of play, in both cases

When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

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