Waist Deep Reviews and Ratings


  • lanba
    October 9, 2009
    lanba
    UFFFFFFFFFFFF pura bala y pelea al CIENNNNNNNNNNn
  • EbertsLittleApprentice
    September 29, 2009
    EbertsLittleApprentice
    "Waist Deep" Stole, "Hosatge's", and "Cradle 2 the Graves" plots and storylines, and rolled them all into and Hour and a Half long Unapolagizing B-movie, that never gives a good reason to keep watching.

    "Waist Deep" is full of melo-dramatic Irony, and this film begs to be Paro...( read more)ided.

    "One and a Half Stars out of Four" Unreccomended. Noth One Once of Reccomendation.
  • chawkins71
    August 19, 2009
    chawkins71
    YES YES YES TYRese . REAL HOTTI..
  • boxofficeman
    August 19, 2009
    boxofficeman
    A high powered action drama that makes a good date night at home movie.
  • castelle
    May 26, 2009
    castelle
    this movie is a very good one, i wud do the same for me son
  • JeffersonB
    May 24, 2009
    JeffersonB
    Tyrese Gibson Son Gets Kidnapped In His Car And Ends Up In A Shoot Out
  • thamessiah
    April 2, 2009
    thamessiah
    gangsta as can be with the father saves the son plus the game is my favorite rapper so yeah lol
  • mondopimp
    March 25, 2009
    mondopimp
    Just a bunch of bank robbery movies turned into a hood movie. Thats it nothing special.
  • Pixiebella
    February 24, 2009
    Pixiebella
    Tyrese was very hot in this one yummy!
  • dkclay014
    February 9, 2009
    dkclay014
    Now this is a movie worth watching. Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good were outstanding in this movie. The film was very dramatic, emotional from the begining when he lost his son all the way to the end. Tyrese was very believable when it came to the drive that he had trying desprat...( read more)ly and doing anything he had to do to get him back. And the ending was a surprise i would have thought he killed himself when he drove that car into the water but i guess not. He made it and he got what his son had asked for and everything. If you don't know what i'm talking about i guess you'll have to see the movie. anyway Tyrese is a very strong actor and i hope to seen him taking on many different rolls in the future.
  • MzLoKiTa23
    January 16, 2009
    MzLoKiTa23
    muy buena movie de accion y mas !!

    -- [[compre]]
  • dennisballer23
    January 12, 2009
    dennisballer23
    Game was wack in this, still a good movie tho
  • ORI6IN
    January 2, 2009
    ORI6IN
    Since I'm not from the urban part of LA, this is for sure, not my type of a film, but the idea of LA's 'Bonnie and Clyde' wasn't bad, and so was performence from Tyrese Gibson (all credit to him and his sexy side-kick Meagan Good)
  • mrclean1957
    December 31, 2008
    mrclean1957
    Saw this movie on BET this morning.:) Great movie will be adding this one to my home collection. Tyrese and Megan Good was OUTSTANDING in this movie. A great ending too!
  • stacey3373
    December 21, 2008
    stacey3373
    such a good movie and seeing how much he cared about his son was refreshing
  • haras030727
    December 19, 2008
    haras030727
    this is a very good movie. which i almost cried on
  • learnstreetmagic
    October 21, 2008
    learnstreetmagic
    if it got > a star,it's prob that u 've been in his shoes b4. Sorry,i aint givin it mo than 1. Juz dont like Good's bitchy looks & lips. this flicks juz aint got the gangsta flava. not even there yet. NWA
  • CASHONDARODDY
    September 27, 2008
    CASHONDARODDY
    this movie gets off and it curses a lot but watch it
  • squay69
    September 16, 2008
    squay69
    Meagan Good is amazing
  • luigibro36
    September 9, 2008
    luigibro36
    this was a good litt action/crime/thriller. thought it was very entertaining throughout. t...( read more)yrese gibson is getting better as an actor everytime he stars in a movie. i have a feeling that he's going to be big one of these days. the other actors were decent enough. this plot was good enough, action was good, & suspense was good also. its sort of predictable movie but as u watch it u still enjoy it nonetheless. overall i recommend this movie for action junkies. this is not a great movie, its just a very good one. awesome movie 3 1/2 stars.
  • theclassicdragon
    September 6, 2008
    theclassicdragon
    Waist Deep is the type of film that an actor receives on the tail-end of his career, where he doesn't care what he stars in as long as he takes the paycheck, not unlike Robert DeNiro. While Tyrese Gibson certainly lacks the pedigree of the Oscar winner, it's a path that both are ...( read more)facing in their careers. Unlike DeNiro, however, whose paycheck taking includes Analyze This, Meet the Fockers and Hide & Seek, Tyrese paycheck taking has led him to arrogantly awful Waist Deep. If this is the best Tyrese can come up with he might as well throw in the towel now. Same could be said for writer-director Vondie Curtis-Hall, who with co-writer Darin Scott, craft a story that's as braindead and stupid as its oft-terrible peers. Of course, considering Curtis-Hall's other known directing credit is the Mariah Carey mega-disaster Glitter, it should come as no surprise that this film is neither compelling nor interesting.

    It starts off as a kidnapping drama when O2(Tyrese), recently released from prison on parole, has a run in with gangsters whose leader is the preposterously named "Meat"(honestly who comes up with these names?), who kidnap his son and is forced to team up with a hooker named CoCo(a bland Meagan Good) to get him back. With a ransom in place, the two devise various ways to get the cash, including robbing various vicinities without any trouble from the law. There are hollow comparisons to Bonnie and Clyde, but where that duo's love for each other culminated in an outrageous crime spree, O2 and Coco's relationship is fueled mainly by lust and greed, as the search for his son soon falls to the wayside until the conclusion. The falsity of it all is what crushes Waist Deep in the end: the errant lack of logic in every situation and its stark artificiality leaves the viewer wondering why they put themselves through this hollow mess.
  • giovannythegodfather
    August 26, 2008
    giovannythegodfather
    I think the hardest aspect of writing this review will be to resist the impulse to misspell "Waist" as "Waste". At its core, this is just another gangster fantasy, playing out with all of the depth and realism of a video game like "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and many of its ...( read more)imitators. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily, as the visceral nature of such fare certainly can make for an engaging viewing experience, and some of the appeal of this film comes through the use of in-your-face camerawork and a constant sense of urgency. It starts off quite well, with a gripping opening and main premise, only to lose its footing right around the time that someone loses his arm in a grisly amputation scene. From then on it's over-the-top formula action, striving for a pulse-pounding, gut-churning pace, only to fail miserably by becoming increasingly preposterous in its character motivations and story with nearly every successive scene.

    The story is simple, but full of unrealistic permutations. A recently-released con with the nickname of O2 (Gibson, Annapolis) gets carjacked with his son Junior still in the back seat. After an extended chase, the carjacker gets away, and after a bit of digging with a nearby hooker named Coco (Good, Venom) who seems to know more than she lets on, he finds that his son is being held by a ruthless drug dealer named Meat (The Game, his debut big screen role). It seems Meat feels that O2 is holding out some money on him from the gig he went up the river for, and now he wants $100,000 within a matter of a day or so, or it's Junior's final day alive. O2 made a promise to never leave his son behind, and it's a promise he intends to keep, as he races around town doing anything he has to to raise the necessary money.

    "Grand Theft Auto" comparisons notwithstanding, even taking Waist Deep on its own terms as a movie, there is a sense of familiarity already in the material lifted from other recent releases. The most obvious comparison is Running Scared, another ultra-violent gangster opus involving a man with a checkered past searching with utter desperation for a boy, encountering all sorts of unsavory situations in his pursuit. The political aspect of the film, with its people marching the streets for justice and a lack of understanding from local law enforcement, is reminiscent of another film involving a plotline where a young boy is ostensibly stolen in a carjacking, Freedomland. The man with a checkered past forced to do anything, including abhorrent violence, to get back a kidnapped child is lifted right out of Man on Fire. The grittiness of the crime drama and action, along with the overriding sense of slick style, feels very much like the John Singleton movie, Four Brothers, which also features a menacing villain and retribution storyline lifted right out of 1970s blaxploitation films.

    I'm sure that Waist Deep will have its audience, particularly among viewers that love violent films with a strong visual style. Typically, these viewers don't seem to mind skimping out on character development, plausible plotting, or realism as long as the film is action-packed, with strong dialogue and a certain amount of shock value. Conventional narrative building blocks are ignored, while the audience is purely engaged by sensory elements, throwing more brutal violence and profane language at them with increasing intensity.

    Sadly, while this sort of thing may be exciting to a certain segment of the population, it is dreadfully boring to others, since there really isn't much to think about or feel connection to. This is a sensationalist fantasy, exploiting stereotypes while masquerading as a film with a serious social and moral backbone underneath. Hypocritical, since the film seems to insist greater police presence is what the crime-ridden streets of the inner city needs, while also making the police out to be apathetic and more of a hindrance than a help, especially to the African-American community crying out for some sort of justice and protection from the thugs running rampant in the community.

    In the end, this is just an absurd actioner, neither realistic nor relevant enough to take seriously as social commentary, save to realize just how much pandering of obscenity Hollywood will engage in by constantly trying to cater to a niche audience that likes amoral entertainment. Gone are the days when films like Do the Right Thing and Boyz N the Hood resonate with the public about the realities of the racism and crime that tear apart largely African-American communities. I guess we've given up trying to tell real stories about real situations, inspired more by making our entertainment so shockingly offensive and nasty, that when we walk out of the theater, we don't feel as bad about our own lives or communities, since our reality, as bad as it may be, is at least better than that depicted in our obscenity-laden films and graphically violent video games. The smog-filled air outside doesn't smell so bad when you've spent the previous two hours wallowing, waist deep, in rancid human filth.
  • OlliffeObscurity
    August 25, 2008
    OlliffeObscurity
    Not really my type of film, but it got better towards the end.
  • SPNObsessed
    August 14, 2008
    SPNObsessed
    TYRESE, THEGAME baby !!! lol XD i love this movie so much
  • SURFMONKEY92
    August 5, 2008
    SURFMONKEY92
    really good movie!!!!
  • SirGenius
    July 30, 2008
    SirGenius
    The Game made this movie wrost than it had to be
  • bowergurl2008
    July 29, 2008
    bowergurl2008
    i like this movie a lot
  • stallonefan1
    July 21, 2008
    stallonefan1
    A Well done Action movie with Tyrese and The Game one to check out forsure.The Game is bad ass as the main bad guy.
  • buddyacker
    July 14, 2008
    buddyacker
    It sucks for the most part with some good parts thrown in for density.
  • paparazzichick2001
    July 13, 2008
    paparazzichick2001
    Liked the plot, but it's a tad unrealistic. However, Tyrese really shines in this role.
  • nohalobaby
    July 11, 2008
    nohalobaby
    Great movie I was bawling my eyes out for the last 45 minutes!
  • darkstorm3428
    July 9, 2008
    darkstorm3428
    Acting so bad that you just have to watch it...
  • 2008DrkAngl
    July 9, 2008
    2008DrkAngl
    love this movie. it is good.
  • melvin0388
    July 6, 2008
    melvin0388
    THIS IS MY SHIT RITE HERE TYRESE AND MEAGEN GOOD MAKE A VERY CUTE COUPLE IN THIS MOVIE. MY NIGGA GAME PLAYED THAT GANGSTA ROLL IN WHICH I WAS FEELIN UNTIL THE END AND EVERYTHING.
  • yimonn91
    July 4, 2008
    yimonn91
    For all its action, it has a sickly cloying ending.....uh...
  • cutiebluesheri
    June 7, 2008
    cutiebluesheri
    dis ma shyt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love dis movie YA DIGG?
  • corbettclassof2007
    June 3, 2008
    corbettclassof2007
    was traumatic but brilliant
  • utytudobush
    May 8, 2008
    utytudobush
    Wow! Tyresse was just phenomenal; a movie both gritty and emotional. Excellent
  • ladmel23
    April 26, 2008
    ladmel23
    Tyrese and Meagan both were good in this movie. The movie was typical though but the acting was grand...even The Game! I would watch it again.
  • JaredsBaby
    April 24, 2008
    JaredsBaby
    Did not like it, thought it was a typical gansta movie and the acting was not that good. Very unrealistic the main character Tyrese needs money to get his son back and just starts robbing banks...not a good movie.
  • breezbre0619
    April 23, 2008
    breezbre0619
    it was a good movie.
  • FarOutBoyScout
    March 29, 2008
    FarOutBoyScout
    cool gangsta film wid a soft centre

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Waist Deep Summary