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Dorff,Reedus,Balk and Dillion stole the show.

posted 19 years ago by AmyAdamsFan
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I rented Dueces Wild last week and thought that it was a great movie. I enjoyed this flick because I love gang movies..especially movies were the gangs fought man to man and not that shooting crap.

Anyways this movie was good especially because of the cast...especially thanks to Stephen Dorff, Norman Reedus, Fairuza Balk and Matt Dillion.

Dorff is always amazing in his films and here it is no exeception as The Duece's leader Leon. Norman Reedues was *beep* brilliant as Dorff's enemy Marco. Fairuza Balk definatley had a strong screen presence in the move and Matt Dillion even though it was a small role was great.

Mainly the cast was good but these actors stole the show. The only weakest link in this film and I am sorry but it's Brad Renfro. He just was not covincing enough plus him trying to pull off being tuff did not work at all. Do you guy think he was as intimadating as Dorff or Reedus or even James Franco?

What do you guys think?

[–] ahx117 18 years ago

i pity you

[–] AmyAdamsFan 18 years ago

I Pity the person who gave birth to you.

[–] celebrity77 18 years ago

The idea for the story was good but unoriginal. Leon and the other characters total naivety given thier bad situation is a plot black hole that makes no sense. We are only dropping bricks on people's heads and standing up to a crime boss why should we ever expect anything bad would happen LOL! Stupid

I'm shocked by your comments in particular, however. The dialogue was not that great to begin with....but all the primary actors in this film were pretty much awful. They were terribly overacting mundane lines and flying off the handle for nothing but then there is no chemistry at all between the 2 main brothers and thier respective love interests. Bobbie and Annie's relationship was based on nothing and they had no chemistry. I can't stop thinking that Annie was like a crappy version of Marisa Tomei with a fake copy of the accent.

It is crazy to even compare this but it is the truth that Schooch (Frankie Muniz) had more chemistry with Betsy then Leon did. They were making out like robots then Schooch knocks on the door and was the only one that had any realistic emotion, blushing and giggling. Not to mention I was shocked and amazed that he had a better Bronx accent then all these older actors.

I think this is the worst perfomance of Matt Dillon's career, he is supposed to be the boss but he projects no authority at all. He's like the Forest Gump of mob bosses.

James Franco had nothing special to contribute either though he only had a few lines.

Marco was like a self-parody of a street gang bad ass. I just got out of jail I'm so excited to piss off everyone I possibly can and find a way to get tossed back inside or get killed as soon as possible for no discernable reason even when the weak boss (Dillon) doesnt seem to care one way or the other!

[–] twidlebug 18 years ago

I thought this movie was terrible. I like most of the actors but I think the movie was a train wreck.