Waist Deep

Year: 2006

Grade: D-

Country: USA

Director: Curtis-Hall

Review

from the director (vondie curtis-hall) of gridlock’d and glitter comes a film more in common with the latter. in gridlock’d curtis-hall made a good film with two actors who could pull their weight. with glitter he made a film so mired in genre cliches that it made its viewers sick. with waist deep curtis-hall shows an uncanny ability to bring out the very worst in a very mediocre script. waist deep is essentially about a guy who needs to raise $100k to save his child. he finds a female companion who is also desperate and the two go on a spree to collect the money. rapper “the game” plays the bad guy and, though he looks the part, he doesn’t do a very good job. he’s sort of an uglier, poor man’s version of ice cube. the film lacks a poignant ending, a moral, heart, lively action or anything else that would normally sustain a picture. it does produce one good laugh and a set of good boobs, but that’s not saying much.

Watched in theater