The worst is saved for last: just when you think the movie has shown the courage of its 'gritty' convictions, it hits you with schmaltz that would shame a Hallmark card.
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11/11/06
Waist Deep (2006)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:20
Rotten:56
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: A well-meaning B-movie that suffers from a cliche-ridden script and poorly drawn characters that fail to inspire much sympathy.
Theatrical Release:03-11-2006
Synopsis: This sun scorched, bullet-blasted South Central L.A. story follows the car- and corpse-strewn trail of an ex-con turned security guard O2 (Tyrese Gibson), who gets carjacked while his son is still... [More]
Starring: Game, Tyrese Gibson, Paul Terrel Clayton, Meagan Good
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
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11/04/06
Top CriticFrom its non-committal title downwards -- we’re a bit worse than ankle deep, but not quite neck deep -- the film includes a final shot that is almost surreal in its implausibility. Waist Deep? More like Deep Waste.
11/02/06
Top CriticThe cast just about escapes with its dignity after this derivative, predictable urban thriller.
10/28/06
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08/07/08
Would most likely have made for a decent late-night Cinemax staple, but its stabs at higher significance only bring on the giggles.
10/21/07
A waste of time!
04/09/07
I saw Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde is a major American movie. Waist Deep, sir, is no Bonnie and Clyde.
02/07/07
...strangely uninvolving...
01/18/07
Just looking at the genre, this is a cut above the normal. This is by no means an endorsement of this movie, but it is better than most.
12/30/06
"Die Hard" meets "Boyz N'The Hood". Audaciously enthralling
10/11/06
A carjacking leads to violence, revenge and antiheroes impossible to root for in Waist Deep, an urban gangster crime-thriller.
07/10/06
The rare summer film that actually delivers what it promises -- 90-odd minutes of lurid trash with hardly a single socially redeeming moment to be had. It even takes the time to illustrate some of my all-time favorite action movie cliches.
07/08/06
The efforts of Waist Deep to make some meaningful social commentary about street gangs and the vicious circle in which African-American men often find themselves seem like an afterthought, rather than anything remotely sincere.
07/08/06
Implausible - with every urban cliche and stereotype - a complete waste of time and money.
07/07/06
Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in [this] genre.
07/05/06
If only director Vondie Curtis Hall were content with making a lean, mean action thriller, as he and his film soon find themselves waist deep and in over their head in pretentious ambition.
07/04/06
Marred by absurd plot digressions and choppy, sloppy and incoherent shaky-camera action sequences.
06/30/06
lets it's booming gangsta rap soundtrack cover up the sad truth that the film doesn't have a real message.
06/29/06
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