Deuces Wild (2002)
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 71
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 69
Melodramatic and weighted down with silly dialogue, Deuces Wild is a forgettable, overheated thriller that leaves no cliche unturned.
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 22
Melodramatic and weighted down with silly dialogue, Deuces Wild is a forgettable, overheated thriller that leaves no cliche unturned.
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Movie Info
This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sweltering summer of 1958, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) are leaders of the Brooklyn street gang known as the Deuces. When their brother Alley Boy died from an overdose, the two toughs vowed to keep narcotics out of their turf, but now they're being muscled by a new and more powerful gang called the Vipers, fueled by drug money and led
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Cast
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Stephen Dorff
Leon -
Brad Renfro
Bobby -
Fairuza Balk
Annie -
Norman Reedus
Marco -
Max Perlich
Freddie -
Drea de Matteo
Betsy -
Vincent Pastore
Father Aldo -
Frankie Muniz
Scooch -
Balthazar Getty
Jimmy Pockets -
Nancy Ellen Cassaro
Esther -
Matt Dillon
Fritzy -
Deborah Harry
Wendy -
Louis Lombardi
Philly Babe -
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Jackie Tohn
Mary Ann
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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (69) | DVD (12)
It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then -- weirdly -- pretends it's Shakespeare.
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A flashback to a heroin casualty on a rain-soaked playground is a crucial visual aid, but any punch-drunk victim of Deuces Wild might prefer the needle to the damage done.
This is a movie that can't say no to a melodramatic opportunity, and whatever verisimilitude inspired Paul Kimatian and Christopher Gambale to write a script based on Kimatian's memories of the gangs has been utterly lost along the way.
Slow-motion shots of swaggering tough guys punctuate this painfully hackneyed gang drama set in late-50s Brooklyn.
The script from first-timers Paul Kimatian and Christopher Gambale requires Dillon to say corny things like: 'Bricks don't fall outta the sky in this neighborhood unless I'm throwin' 'em.' Tony Soprano, he ain't.
Deuces Wild's not worth anteing up the ticket price.
A repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved.
What died in here, and who can we call to take its carcass away?
If it was the intention of Kalvert, Gambale and Kimatian to infiltrate their script with every stereotypical hoodlum cliché from every movie covering Brooklyn bad boys, they were on the money. Too bad their movie isn't.
Tentando desesperadamente se transformar em uma espécie de O Selvagem da Motocicleta do novo milênio (com toques de Amor, Sublime Amor), o filme é esquemático demais, tornando-se artificial e nada envolvente.
With a couple of plot twists and a few powerful performances, Deuces Wild is worth checking out -- but only on home video.
I accuse films of being generic and unoriginal on a regular basis, but rarely have I seen a movie so determined to check off every cliché on the list as Deuces Wild.
Despite its best intentions, Deuces Wild is an empty hand.
Both half-hearted and half-assed
It does nothing new with the old story, except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28K modem.
Some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations.
If they broke out into elaborate choreography, singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention, but as it stands I kept looking for the last exit from Brooklyn.
It hasn't got a clue where it's going, or which movie it wants to copy most.
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