All I can say is fuhgeddaboutit.
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05/13/02
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.
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
Reviews for Deuces Wild
In its best moments, resembles a bad high school production of Grease, without benefit of song.
05/02/02
Gets the look and the period trappings right, but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés.
05/05/02
A rather tired exercise in nostalgia.
05/02/02
The exploitative, clumsily staged violence overshadows everything, including most of the actors.
05/02/02
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.
05/03/02
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
A Sha-Na-Na sketch punctuated with graphic violence.
05/02/02
A preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958.
05/02/02
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.
08/05/02
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.
06/04/02
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.
05/17/02
The movie is like Scorsese's Mean Streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like Leather Warriors and Switchblade Sexpot.
05/03/02
No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called Deuces Wild.
05/11/02
Troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal.
05/03/02
Deuces Wild treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story territory, where it plainly has no business going.
05/06/02
Not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid.
05/07/02
Some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations.
06/07/02
So clichéd that, at one point, they literally upset an apple cart.
05/02/02
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.
06/10/02
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