By teasing us with potential meaning only to embrace wanton gunplay, Waist Deep betrays thinking members in the audience.
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06/23/06
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
Reviews for Waist Deep
Everyone connected with this gangsta opus was probably trying to make a crowd-pleaser. However, you wind up wondering what kind of crowds they were trying to please.
06/23/06
The dialogue by Curtis-Hall and Darin Scott is a degrading string of profanities and inanities, interspersed with sadism and exploitation of women. Their opinion of their target audience should depress moviegoers of any color.
06/23/06
The problem with Waist Deep is that it has too many small parts. Individually, the parts are fine. Once assembled, though, they don't add up to much.
06/23/06
Vondie Curtis Hall helmed Gridlock'd, a low-budget buddy thriller starring Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth, with nary a rote moment. This is not the case with Waist Deep, a big-budget thriller with nary an original moment.
06/23/06
A cynical excuse for the writer and director (and talented actor) Vondie Curtis-Hall to sock some money away for the kids' college tuition.
06/23/06
It's hard to figure out if writer/director Vondie Curtis-Hall... is demonstrating simple ineptitude here, or out-and-out Ed Wood-itude.
06/23/06
Waist Deep is just another one of those middle-of-the-road action flicks.
06/23/06
I could almost recommend this action movie as an entertaining ride, but I wouldn't pay theater-price to see it.
06/23/06
Waist Deep is what used to be called a B movie, back in the days when there were double features... It's a hard little melodrama, done well.
06/23/06
All of the familiar urban stereotypes and clichés are out in force.
06/22/06
A Juilliard-trained musician, accomplished actor and busy TV director, Vondie Curtis Hall is probably too smart to be directing stories like Waist Deep.
06/22/06
The lead actors are good, and the film moves along so well that audiences may overlook plot holes that are, well, waist deep.
06/22/06
Waist Deep turns out to be a shallow waste.
06/22/06
Waist Deep is a waste of time, and ankle deep at best.
06/22/06
Director Vondie Curtis-Hall squanders a perfectly decent cast on a corny and surprisingly dull urban thriller.
06/22/06
What do you expect from the man who not only directed Glitter, but spent an entire DVD commentary track defending the film?
06/22/06
It plays like an urban western: a strong, quiet loner takes on a corrupt man who runs the town with the help of a girl gone wrong with a heart of gold.
06/22/06
The camerawork is jerky and distracting, the dialogue is cliched and the story makes so little sense that the script seems to have been improvised by the actors as they went along.
06/22/06
A solidly crafted piece of genre filmmaking.
06/22/06
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