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Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

  • Starring: Larenz Tate, Meagan Good, Tyrese Gibson
  • Summary: In the urban action thriller Waist Deep, director Vondie Curtis Hall takes audiences on a ride through contemporary Los Angeles -- where a sexy 21st-century Bonnie and Clyde hit the streets. (Rogue Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 22
  2. Negative: 10 out of 22
  1. Sometimes excessiveness and implausibility are virtues in disguise. Movies this enjoyable don't come about by accident.
  2. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    60
    Waist Deep packs considerable energy and style into its tale of an ex-con forced back into a life of crime to rescue his kidnapped son. Yet the kinetic direction and occasional sly humor can't disguise the tale's banal brutality or pump much excitement into its routinized pileup of shoot-outs and car chases.
  3. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    A deep waste is more like it.
  4. 38
    With an exciting way out, the audience would have gladly overlooked all the loose ends from earlier in the movie. But the way Hall plays it, he undermines the early style and intelligence of his all-black action movie, taking audiences for the wrong kind of ride in the end.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. TheresaB.
    10
    I really enjoy this film. Tyrese and Megan Good gave a good performance and the action kept me interested throughout the movie.
  2. PrincessYoung
    10
    I think this was the best movie I seen in a long time. I had to go by it on DVD.
  3. KourtneyT.
    8
    Waist Deep is definitely one of the best films of the summer. It had all the elements that a movie should have. Meagan Good gave an outstanding performance as a lead actress. I definitely recommend this movie as a must see hit! Expand
  4. LeeR.
    7
    Curtis Hall surprised me with this one. In a time when recycled crap like Little Miss Sunshine and Garden State are ruling the world of film, it's refreshing to walk into something like Waist Deep and be reminded of just how good films used to be. Expand

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