Scott Kalvert's attempt at a gangster picture is the worst film of 2002.

| Aug 23, 2014

Maybe if the movie had left all the expensive period artifacts, and most of the hackneyed script, on the street corner and let its capable young cast loose, Deuces Wild would have offered the audience a more interesting game.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2014

It's full of sound and fury, and the ensemble tries hard, but mob boss Fitzy has it right: They're just kids who need to grow up.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2014

This clichd tale of combative Brooklyn street gangs in the late 1950s gets it so wrong in so many ways, it's almost cruel to count them.

| Jul 24, 2014

Deuces Wild's not worth anteing up the ticket price.

| Jun 3, 2013

A repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved.

| Jun 3, 2013

It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every clich 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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 3, 2013

Skip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture.

| Jun 3, 2013

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.

| Jun 3, 2013

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.

| Oct 18, 2008

Slow-motion shots of swaggering tough guys punctuate this painfully hackneyed gang drama set in late-50s Brooklyn.

| Mar 7, 2007

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.

| Mar 7, 2007

What died in here, and who can we call to take its carcass away?

Full Review | Jul 5, 2004

If it was the intention of Kalvert, Gambale and Kimatian to infiltrate their script with every stereotypical hoodlum clich from every movie covering Brooklyn bad boys, they were on the money. Too bad their movie isn't.

| Feb 1, 2004

Tentando desesperadamente se transformar em uma espcie de O Selvagem da Motocicleta do novo milnio (com toques de Amor, Sublime Amor), o filme esquemtico demais, tornando-se artificial e nada envolvente.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2003

With a couple of plot twists and a few powerful performances, Deuces Wild is worth checking out -- but only on home video.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

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 clich on the list as Deuces Wild.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 18, 2002

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.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2002

Despite its best intentions, Deuces Wild is an empty hand.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 3, 2002

Both half-hearted and half-assed

| Original Score: C- | Jul 3, 2002