Waist Deep

Name: Waist Deep
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: June 23, 2006
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Larenz Tate, Meagan Good, Tyrese Gibson

2006

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Focus Features | Release Date: June 23, 2006 | R

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)

Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Mick LaSalle

Sometimes excessiveness and implausibility are virtues in disguise. Movies this enjoyable don't come about by accident. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Director Vondie Curtis Hall gives this virtually nonstop crime actioner, set against the mean streets of Los Angeles, pleasing noirish touches along with larger-than-life-size characters. Read full review

Justin Chang

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. Read full review

Gene Seymour

As its plot thickens, Waist Deep gets more outlandish. The whole mess empties out into an overextended car chase through Los Angeles. Read full review

Peter Debruge

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. Read full review

Steve Davis

The lengths to which a parent will go to save a child can be gut-wrenching stuff, but Waist Deep rarely hits you in the pit of your stomach. Blame it on the lame screenplay, which unwisely (and badly) gravitates more toward the crime-spree elements of "Bonnie and Clyde" than the fierce parental instincts of, say, "Kramer vs. Kramer" or "Lorenzo's Oil." Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Director Vondie Curtis-Hall has managed to top (or should I say "bottom"?) his last theatrical release, Mariah Carey's "Glitter," with a movie that offers not one praiseworthy moment: not a scene, not a performance, not a technical achievement, not even a line of dialogue. Read full review

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TheresaB.

Dec 21, 2006

I really enjoy this film. Tyrese and Megan Good gave a good performance and the action kept me interested throughout the movie.