Deuces Wild Reviews
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If you put the scripts for ''West Side Story,'' ''Mean Streets,'' and ''The Warriors'' in a blender, you might wind up with something like Deuces Wild, a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958.
Read the full reviewA repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved, including late cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown, Harold & Maude), who deserved a much better swan song.
Read the full reviewJust about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.
Read the full reviewPropelled not by characters but caricatures.
Read the full reviewA film that desperately wants to be a music video circa 1983.
Read the full reviewIn its overwhelmingly artificial depiction of the street gangs that ruled Brooklyn's mean streets in the 1950s, Deuces Wild draws from a phony deck.
Read the full reviewSkip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture, right down to such clunker lines as "There is a Santa Claus, Ma. He just doesn't come to Brooklyn anymore."
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 16
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precognition
"I've never seen this movie before. But for some odd reason i knew exactly what would happen next throughout the whole movie...can anyone say generic 50's hoodlum movie?"
i liked it
"a coo slick film but its nothing like a great gangster film cause it just isnt but i enjoyed it"
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