If Deuces Wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure, one of those movies that's so bad it starts to become good. But it wasn't.
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05/03/02
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Deuces Wild (2002)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:2
Rotten:63
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: Melodramatic and weighted down with silly dialogue, Deuces Wild is a forgettable effort that leaves no cliches unturned.
Theatrical Release:May 3, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $6,044,618
Synopsis: Leon (Stephen Dorff) leads the Deuces, a gang he formed to keep "junk" off his Sunset Park block after his youngest brother died of a drug overdose. However, his other brother, Bobby (Brad Renfro),... [More]
Starring: Matt Dillon, Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk
Director: Scott Kalvert
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Reviews for Deuces Wild
Deuces Wild is a beautifully textured movie with its heart in the right place. Yet it badly wants a mature sense of esthetic balance, restraint and decorum.
05/03/02
Top CriticMaybe the filmmakers' affinity for fog machines clouded their thinking. No matter -- the mists of time are already swallowing this one.
05/03/02
A bit too familiar and occasionally melodramatic, Deuces Wild clicks nonetheless, thanks to a gritty screenplay and tight direction.
05/03/02
A stuffed turkey of weary cliches and regurgitated tough-guy subplots that rip off just about everything from West Side Story to Francis Coppola's archetypal S.E. Hinton adaptations of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish.
05/03/02
It's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by Scott Kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 Brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo.
05/03/02
When you're watching a flick like this and you're expecting -- no, make that hoping -- someone's gonna bust out with a chorus of Maria, then you're in pretty bad shape.
05/03/02
Brainless, but enjoyably over-the-top, the retro gang melodrama, Deuces Wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism.
05/03/02
Top CriticIt's clear why Deuces Wild, which was shot two years ago, has been gathering dust on MGM's shelf.
05/03/02
Top CriticIn its best moments, resembles a bad high school production of Grease, without benefit of song.
05/02/02
This hackneyed throwback to greasers and rumbles steals everything and nothing from the classic gang films that came before it.
05/02/02
Top CriticThis is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action.
05/02/02
Top CriticContrived, awkward and filled with unintended laughs, the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster.
05/02/02
Top CriticThis film isn’t worth the celluloid it’s printed on.
05/02/02
Deuces Wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like The Wanderers and A Bronx Tale without cribbing any of their intelligence.
05/02/02
Top CriticIt's an encyclopedia of cliches, with each stale plot twist easily predicted and relentlessly foreshadowed.
05/02/02
Top CriticPoorly shot, badly written and horribly acted.
05/02/02
I can't remember the last time I saw an audience laugh so much during a movie, but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama.
05/02/02
So clichéd that, at one point, they literally upset an apple cart.
05/02/02
The exploitative, clumsily staged violence overshadows everything, including most of the actors.
05/02/02
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