Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Would most likely have made for a decent late-night Cinemax staple, but its stabs at higher significance only bring on the giggles.

| Oct 21, 2007

A waste of time!

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 9, 2007

I saw Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde is a major American movie. Waist Deep, sir, is no Bonnie and Clyde.

| Feb 7, 2007

...strangely uninvolving...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2007

Just looking at the genre, this is a cut above the normal. This is by no means an endorsement of this movie, but it is better than most.

| Dec 30, 2006

The worst is saved for last: just when you think the movie has shown the courage of its 'gritty' convictions, it hits you with schmaltz that would shame a Hallmark card.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2006

From its non-committal title downwards -- we're a bit worse than ankle deep, but not quite neck deep -- the film includes a final shot that is almost surreal in its implausibility. Waist Deep? More like Deep Waste.

| Nov 2, 2006

The cast just about escapes with its dignity after this derivative, predictable urban thriller.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2006

"Die Hard" meets "Boyz N'The Hood". Audaciously enthralling

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2006

A carjacking leads to violence, revenge and antiheroes impossible to root for in Waist Deep, an urban gangster crime-thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 10, 2006

The efforts of Waist Deep to make some meaningful social commentary about street gangs and the vicious circle in which African-American men often find themselves seem like an afterthought, rather than anything remotely sincere.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 8, 2006

The rare summer film that actually delivers what it promises -- 90-odd minutes of lurid trash with hardly a single socially redeeming moment to be had. It even takes the time to illustrate some of my all-time favorite action movie cliches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2006

Implausible - with every urban cliche and stereotype - a complete waste of time and money.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Jul 7, 2006

Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in [this] genre.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2006

If only director Vondie Curtis Hall were content with making a lean, mean action thriller, as he and his film soon find themselves waist deep and in over their head in pretentious ambition.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 4, 2006

Marred by absurd plot digressions and choppy, sloppy and incoherent shaky-camera action sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2006

lets it's booming gangsta rap soundtrack cover up the sad truth that the film doesn't have a real message.

| Jun 29, 2006

The Game attempts to exude menace through hardcore forehead-wrinkling and gangsta nose-crinkling, but his efforts are more comic than sinister.

| Original Score: D | Jun 29, 2006

so superficial and poorly directed that I've got to think that even those inclined to appreciate a gangsta-flavored action flick will be shaking their heads in disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 28, 2006