I found the scene when Will Smith first arrives on the train and Kevin Kline is showing off its gadgets the best one, up to the "this is a man's HEAD". From there it all goes downhill, and the spider was way beyond my willing suspension of disbelief (as was its mechanically enhanced crew).Killer Wolf wrote:the spider was kick ass. the rest....wasn't.
Technologically it was Star Trek in the wild west. Which simply doesn't work, because while you may be willing to accept inexplicable magic technology in a future setting saturated with technobabble, it's painfully obvious that 19th century technology based on steam engines and clockwork mechanisms simply doesn't have the power and therefore isn't capable of what it is supposed to do in the movie.
Once that was clear (and that was very early on in the movie) the whole thing wasn't wild west anymore, but some steam punk-alternative universe-future holodeck version of wild west. To put it this way: the movie worked only as long as you could trick yourself into believing that what you were seeing was actually one of Captain Janeway's holo-novels, and she was playing President Grant.
And the heroes were played by her two crew-chew-toys of the week, who had to 'volunteer' to be put through this ordeal in oder to make up for something, or perhaps just for distracting the captain from the actual crisis-of-the-week in the holo deck, in order to prevent her from killing too many crew members for real. </sarcasm mode>
