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Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: Melodramatic and weighted down with silly dialogue, Deuces Wild is a forgettable effort that leaves no cliches unturned.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
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.
Top CriticSlow-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.
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.
Astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent, incoherent or just plain crap. Indeed, none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is 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.
A stale drama about two rival white gangs who live across the street from each other.
A summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie, for that comes through all too painfully in the execution.
All I can say is fuhgeddaboutit.
You'll have a ball with Deuces Wild. Not because it's a well-made and intelligent movie, but because it plays like the world's most straight-faced spoof.
No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called Deuces Wild.
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