Critic Reviews

• Robert Koehler, Variety

  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.

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

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

• Christy Lemire, Associated Press

  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.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  Propelled not by characters but by caricatures.

• Claudia Puig, USA Today

  No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie.

• Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

  If there's a heaven for bad movies, Deuces Wild is on its way.

• Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

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

• Susan Michals, FilmStew.com

  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.

• Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

  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.

• Heather Wadowski, Film Threat

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

• Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com

  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.

• Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly

  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.

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

  ...we have a case of the audiovisual qualities of a movie far outstripping the merits of the film itself.

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

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

• Eugene Novikov, Film Blather

  Both half-hearted and half-assed

• Stephen Himes, Film Snobs

  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.

• Bob Grimm, Las Vegas Mercury

  Some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations.

• Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, TheMovieChicks.com

  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.

• Audrey Rock-Richardson, Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

  It hasn't got a clue where it's going, or which movie it wants to copy most.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  A stale drama about two rival white gangs who live across the street from each other.

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