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Cast
- Tyrese GibsonO2
- Meagan GoodCoco
- Larenz TateLucky
- Henry Hunter HallJunior
- GameMeat
- William DuffyNewscaster #2
- Shawn ParrNewscaster #1
- Kimora Lee SimmonsFencing House Lady
- Johnny C. PruittGuard
- Darris LoveRock
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 63
Chicago Tribune
The performances are pretty good--with the exception of the nauseatingly sweet H. Hunter Hall (the son of the director) as Junior and a one-note scowl from rapper The Game, who plays Meat--and the screenplay, by Hall and Darin Scott, has some genuinely funny moments. - 60
Variety
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. - 60
Washington Post
No, it's not a great movie. It is, however, an interesting one. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By most of the ways movies are usually judged, pretty much of a mess. 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. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Gibson and Good deliver such emotionally honest performances that we wish them a happy ending, no matter how many movie clichés have to be trotted out to get there. - 50
The New York Times
Unapologetically a B movie, its narrative premise whittled down to a mean little nub and placed carefully on the borderline between the wildly implausible and the completely absurd. - 50
Los Angeles Times
As its plot thickens, Waist Deep gets more outlandish. The whole mess empties out into an overextended car chase through Los Angeles.
