Waist Deep
Focus Features | Release Date: June 23, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
10
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38
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A deep waste is more like it. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
With an exciting way out, the audience would have gladly overlooked all the loose ends from earlier in the movie. But the way Hall plays it, he undermines the early style and intelligence of his all-black action movie, taking audiences for the wrong kind of ride in the end. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBill Gallo
For its ever shifting attitudes toward men, women, and murder, Waist Deep is one of the sloppiest movies ever to reach the screen. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
The lengths to which a parent will go to save a child can be gut-wrenching stuff, but Waist Deep rarely hits you in the pit of your stomach. Blame it on the lame screenplay, which unwisely (and badly) gravitates more toward the crime-spree elements of "Bonnie and Clyde" than the fierce parental instincts of, say, "Kramer vs. Kramer" or "Lorenzo's Oil." Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Slow-witted and occasionally unintentionally hilarious. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The cast, especially The Game, does a fairly good job with this meager material, but it's like trying to make chateaubriand out of Spam. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Like the forgotten blaxploitation schlock it often resembles, the film aspires to nothing but cheap thrills, but while it's plenty cheap, it's far from thrilling. Read full review
25
PremiereMonica A. Reyhani
To be fair Deep does have one thing going for it. While the movie never seems to end, and when it does… oh man. Think "Aquaman" meets "Training Day." It proves that sometimes a crappy drama is sometimes just a comedy in disguise. Read full review
0
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
It's about as much fun for the viewer as being dropped into a virtual-reality version of a highway-safety crash film. Hall writes and directs with the finesse of a rusty hatchet. Read full review
0
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Director Vondie Curtis-Hall has managed to top (or should I say "bottom"?) his last theatrical release, Mariah Carey's "Glitter," with a movie that offers not one praiseworthy moment: not a scene, not a performance, not a technical achievement, not even a line of dialogue. Read full review
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