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Waist Deep (2006) DVD Review
Waist Deep (2006) DVD Credits:
Waist Deep (2006) Directed by:
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Waist Deep (2006) Written by:
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Waist Deep (2006) Cast:
The Game, Paul Terrell Clayton, Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Eric Lane, Larenz Tate, Arnold Vosloo, Jose Yenque
Waist Deep (2006) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Waist Deep (2006) DVD Release Date:
9th October 2006
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Waist Deep (2006) Synopsis:

Tyrese Gibson stars as ex-con O2 who is suddenly plunged into a life-or-death situation; trying to go straight for the sake of his young son Junior, O2 is forced to go back outside the law when Junior is kidnapped in a carjacking. His son is now in the hands of a vicious criminal leader, Meat (hip-hop superstar The Game). O2's shady cousin Wanna Be (Larenz Tate) is caught between loyalties, and so the only person who can or will help O2 now is wily street-smart hustler Coco (Meagan Good). With the clock ticking down, the heat between them rises as they become a lawbreaking couple, on an action-packed tear through town to save Junior and outwit the underworld.

Waist Deep (2006) DVD Review:

None of the characters in Waist Deep are particularly interesting to watch. They are predictable caricatures of the typical stereotypes you would expect to find in an urban thriller, and because of that the film isn’t much fun to watch. All of the rest of the elements are basically by-the-book, making the entire result a very bland and forgettable experience. It isn’t that there isn’t a strong story to go on, because action films in the past have had less to work with and have been twice as entertaining. There is forced heftiness forced on many scenes, but it just isn’t quite believable and that makes it bad melodrama that weighs down any chance of escapism.

Tyrese Gibson plays O2, an ex-con who has promised his son that he won’t go back to jail, which we know will lead to him having to return to crime. Predictably enough O2’s son is kidnapped when he is carjacked, and it just so happens that his son ends up in the hands of a Scarface obsessed drug lord (The Game) who holds the boy for ransom, and the only way that O2 can get his son back is by going on a robbing spree. The DVD trend which has the filmmakers explaining their methods in special features may actually be a negative thing for the filmmakers of Waist Deep. They have their chance to defend the film in the special features and I have often found myself persuaded by passionate directors to at least consider the possibility that there is more than meets the eye, but once the featurettes are watched on Waist Deep it will be more likely to deter you from watching the film again.

The comments from everyone involved in the analysis of a scene featurette makes you wonder who gave them money to make a movie. Nobody has anything extremely profound to say and they mostly sound like they have delusion of grandeur in regards to the film. Tyrese brags about his stunt abilities while the director gives the most inarticulate description of the scene possible, more excited about the coolness of the sequence than the quality. Writer/director Vondie Curtis Hall seems to think that the film is cutting edge and unpredictable, but the only elements which aren’t predictable are the ones to absurd to expect. There is also a featurette about the cars in the film. Other special features include a music video and deleted scenes.

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Waist Deep (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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