Christina Reviews *Deuces Wild*

          Why was this movie made? It was pretty much the same plot as West Side Story. I know that everything's been done before, but this had nothing new to offer.

          Brad Renfro plays the younger brother of the leader of the Deuces.  The Deuces is a gang whose job it is to clean up the city. They do this by dropping cement blocks onto cars and by chasing after those nasty Vipers who were responsible for the death of Renfro and Dorff's other brother. We are informed right from the beginning that the Deuces are good and the Vipers are bad, and that is all there is to it. At least in West Side Story, things were a little more complicated than that. I remember when I was younger, I thought that the Jets were good and the Sharks were bad because the Jets were in more scenes, but I'm sure I would have a different perspective now. In this movie, everything is babied-down for us.

          Questioning the hero's actions? We can't have that!

          In this movie, we do get a glimpse of the parents of these wild children, and they are a sorry sight. Why, that's half the story there, trying to sicken us with these pitiful maternal figures. Perhaps the writers and director of West Side Story knew what they were doing when they made the parents of the kids non-existent (as far as camera time was concerned).

        Here is a movie where I am more likely to favor the villain over the "good guys". Though I wouldn't want to know Marco in real life, on screen, he was cool.  A hell of a lot cooler than those Deuces.