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1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the streets of New York.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 5.6 |
Studio : | United Artists, Eternity Pictures, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Stephen Dorff Fairuza Balk Brad Renfro Norman Reedus Max Perlich |
Genre : | Drama Action Crime |
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Thanks for the memories!
best movie i've ever seen.
Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Obviously some of these people who saw this movie didn't think too highly of it. Well if you take into account that this is a movie set in the 50s...and we are watching it 50+ years later then you should probably take into account that the whole good guys vs. bad guys "routine" was all they had going on back then. Some of the so called clichés that were in the movie are only clichés to us in the here and now. It was written authentically for the time period. The actors in the film did a hell of a job in showing the passion and conviction of their characters. The writing was in fact a little underdeveloped but the overall story really pulled through.Deuces forever.
Why they have this movie listed under drama I'll never know. For the first 30 minutes I thought it was pretty funny, then I looked it up in the database only to find that it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. Ruined the rest of the picture.One of the funnest lines was a "kinder-hood" commenting one evening on the Christmas music playing in the background. "Christ, it's gotta be 115 degrees". The next day (presumably still at least 100 degrees) we see him wearing his leather jacket. Great gag! You can see why these kids are so tough, though. Why they have a chip on their shoulder. They come from a tough neighborhood - only one pool to go to. What satire!It is easily twice as good as a comedy as it is a drama. On a scale of 10* I give it a rock solid 1/2* as a comedy.
..... but I'll try.The film's about a Brooklyn gang called the Deuces, circa 1958, and centers on two people, Leon, the gang leader, and his younger brother, Bobby. A third brother died of a drug overdose years before and Leon's sworn to keep the neighborhood clean. The dealer who sold his brother the smack comes back from prison looking for revenge and partners up with the local mob boss, played inexplicably by Matt Dillon. The war is on for control of the street.The script is awful. The dialogue is right out of a comic book. And the actors do nothing to elevate the film. Fairuza Balk gets my nod for the worst performance of the year. She's ten years too old for the part of the teenage sister of a rival gang member, and her makeup and Brooklyn accent are an affront to the senses. Stephen Dourf and Brad Renfro are a couple of lightweights cast as the two brothers. Every cliché about Brooklyn street gangs is paraded in front of the viewer, right down to the Catholic priest trying to get the boys to stop fighting each other. There's even a young kid, Scooch, an angelic wannabe that looks up to Leon. I almost expected Pat O'Brien and Billy Halop to pop up any minute.This turkey belongs in the trash bin.
It was awful plain and simple. What was their message? Where was the movie going with this? It has all the ingredients of a sub-B grade movie. From plotless storyline the bad acting to the cheesey slow-mo cinematography. I'd sooner watch a movie I've already seen like Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, even Grease. There are NO likeable characters. In the end you just want everyone to die already. Save 2 hours of your life and skip this one.