Rotten
A repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Deuces Wild
Before gangs had guns...they fought with guts.
2002 · 1h 36m · R
Action, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Scott Kalvert
Overview
In 1950s New York City, a bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn between the Deuces and the vicious Vipers.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
3%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliche 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.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten
Skip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture.
Gene Seymour, Newsday
Rotten
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.
Jessica Winter, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Robert Koehler, Variety
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