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Entertainment Weekly
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. Full Review
Claudia Puig
USA Today
It would appear that director Scott Kalvert never met a cliché he didn't like. No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie. Full Review
Gene Seymour
Los Angeles Times
Skip 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." Full Review
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland. Full Review
Jonathan Perry
Boston Globe
Just 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. Full Review
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