Rotten
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.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Waist Deep
His son. His life. His freedom. He's taking them all back.
2006 · 1h 37m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Overview
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
28%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in [this] genre.
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
The Game attempts to exude menace through hardcore forehead-wrinkling and gangsta nose-crinkling, but his efforts are more comic than sinister.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
For its ever shifting attitudes toward men, women, and murder, Waist Deep is one of the sloppiest movies ever to reach the screen.
Bill Gallo, Village Voice
Rotten
Nothing in this story is remotely realistic, and the target audience for urban dramas -- teenage boys -- won't know what to make of its mushy romantic center.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
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