Waist Deep
Tags: blaxploitation, revenge, neo noir, murder, violence

Plot synopsis:
Ex-con Otis, or "O2" on account of his ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen, has done his time and is determined to stay out of trouble and never leave his young son, Otis, Jr.
When O2 shows up late to pick Junior up from school, he swears that he will always come back for Junior. That promise is put to the test just moments later when O2's vintage 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS Lowrider convertible is stolen from him at gunpoint in the middle of a crowded Southland intersection with Junior in the back seat. O2 chases the car and gets into a nasty gun battle with the carjackers, but to no avail.
O2 catches up with Coco, a woman who sells stolen suits for P Money. O2 knows she is the one who marked him for the carjacking, and he forces her to help him retrieve Junior. The two steal a car (a 1996 Impala SS sedan) and Coco's boyfriend savagely beats her. Upon hitting a woman O2 viscously pistol whips him with his gun before the two retreat to Lucky's home. Lucky, Otis' unreliable cousin who works for Big Meat, the leader of the Outlaw Syndicate, offers to help.
After a few hours, Lucky comes back with some bad news: Meat has Junior and demands that O2 deliver $100,000 by midnight the next night, or Junior will die. Meat was once O2's partner and thinks O2 still has the $100,000 they made off their last job together.
O2 comes up with a plan: he and Coco will rob P Money's and Meat's own operations, staging it to look like one is stealing from the other, and triggering a gang war that will hopefully eliminate both and help O2 and Coco rescue Junior. After a successful robbery of one of the Big Meat's locations, O2 and Coco come across a set of safe deposit box keys belonging to numerous banks. The next day, they stage a number of bank robberies and are able to retrieve expensive jewelry, which Lucky offers to get rid to prove his worth. When Lucky takes the jewelry to Big Meat unknowing that it belongs to Big Meat, Lucky is forced to set up a meeting between himself, O2, and Coco, with Big Meat along to end O2.
They take the car to an alley and give him the money. It is revealed that Big Meat never intended to let Junior live and signals one of his men to kill Junior. Lucky sees this and tackles him as the man shoots, one shot hit Lucky in the side of the chest. O2 kills Meat and his men and retrieves Junior.
They stop at a gas station to attend to Lucky's wound. O2 tells Lucky they will get him to a hospital, but Lucky dies from his wounds. O2 hides in a parking lot and tells Coco to take Junior to the Mexican border while he outruns the cops. As Junior and Coco escape, O2 is tailed by the cops. They run him to a dead end where the lake is. O2, realizing he has no choice, drives into the water.
Five days later in Mexico, Coco and Junior are living in a house on a beach. They are walking on the beach when they see O2 in the distance and then reunite.

Review: This isn't a great movie but it's good, fun, mindless entertainment.
What I got was an action-packed movie that borrowed from many films before it; its saving grace is its urban twist, the tongue in cheek humor (Kimora Lee's cameo is priceless) and its stars, Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good and Larenz Tate.
The action is non-stop, the hip hop soundtrack delivers in all the right places and you could plant a pretty garden in the plot holes but you'll certainly get your money's worth with the gunfights, beautiful people and adrenaline racing chase scenes--and in the end, isn't that what action films are all about?.
In closing I was very happy because with a film like this you can only score on action but they were some strong roles (not award winning but there hasn't been much of that lately anyhow)..
WAIST DEEP follows a tried and true formula: Ex-con's son is kidnapped by his ex-partner in crime, a ransom is demanded, the ex-con works diligently to put together the ransom while doing his best to undermine his old partner, and there's a final showdown between them.
The formula works most of the time, but the movie is so predictable that in the end I asked myself why I bothered to rent it.
Tyrese Gibson played the father who would very much rather forget his past and jail time so he set a good example for his kid.
Such scene is when Gibson's character is running than switches to first person as the director, Vondie Curtis-Hall, has the camera shaking constantly to give it a more dramatic feel.The relationship between Good and Gibson's character grew way to fast but still was par.
There are some moments that are far fetched but the movie was still very entertaining and intense and I believe it gets a 7.5 rating (rounded to a 8).Acting 7, editing 6, directing 8, plot 6..
O2 and Coco plot a scheme to put the pimp P-Money and Meat against each other and steal their money."Waist Deep" is another good movie of gangsters in Los Angeles that never disappoints.
The story is full of action and violent with excellent direction of Vondie Curtis-Hall, the cast has great performances and Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good show a wonderful chemistry.
It seems that there are viewers in IMDb that do not like this genre, but spend their time watching this type of movie apparently just to write bad reviews.
I really enjoyed Tyrese's performance in the film; you could tell right off the bat that his character really cared for his son and would do anything to get him back.
At first it seemed as if she was going to just spoil the movie just by shaking her ass the whole time in front of Tyrese just to make some dough, but when she found out what happened to his son they connected on a deeper level.
The game's performance in this film was very believable; at times i flinched whenever he came on the screen because i was scared of what he might do.He doesn't have as much screen time as do Tyrese and Meagan good do, but he makes it worth while.
There are two basic sub-genres within the "urban" (read black guys) category: 1/ The totally play-to-cliché everyone rocks a glock & has dumb hair & shoots before they talk & hates the cops & keeps it real at all times & is part of a gang selling drugs & 110% gangsta 112% of the time.2/ A more realistic portrayal, which if the depictions are right is all of the above only slightly less so.Waist Deep straddles the line of the two and ends up being a bit of both, but as a result not much of anything.Streets is hot in LA cuz.
He grabs her (never abet a car-jacking and expect to run away in high heels luv) and after the girl Coco realises he really loves his son the two set off top spend the rest of the movie finding him.Within 12 minutes or so O2 finds out through his sketchy cousin Lucky that a gang called the Outlaws (ooooh scary) lead by crime-boss Big Meat (it pays to advertise I guess?) has O2-2 and wants O2 to pay a ransom to get him back.To raise the funds O2 and Coco – sounds like a bad Euro DJ team – must wreak a 2 person crime wave all over the city during which Coco gets to wear a cavalcade of fashionable outfits that were fortunately provided in an otherwise pointless scene where they go to an underground fashion dealer and stick 'em up.I'm not complaining much, Coco is hot.The film continues the paint by numbers approach, there is a love scene, proof that Big Meat is tough, nasty and ruthless and also that O2 is basically a hard working father pushed into a situation against his will, yet eminently capable in this environment and Coco is still hot and wears lots of outfits (not sure if I mentioned that before).The title Waist Deep probably means something, I have no idea what.
It's merely another film where a Dad must save his child from the naughty guys while the clock is running and neither a good nor an especially bad one.Final Rating – 5 / 10.
Waist Deep is another in the never ending black gangster films depicting a group of people the simply don't exist anywhere.
An ex-con (Tyrese Gibson) trying to go straight is pulled back into the life after his young son (Henry Hunter Hall) is kidnapped by an urban gang led by a sadistic machete-wielding boss (The Game).
Throw in red-hot small-time hustler Meagan Good and borderline alcoholic Larenz Tate (as Gibson's inept cousin) and we have a typical modern-day crime picture that has lots more bullets than brains.
"Waist Deep" stays at an adequate spot for a good portion of its running time, but then finally sinks with an unwanted and ridiculous final act.
I mean a 6 year old could come up with the script for Waist Deep, and the child actor in it is The worst I've ever seen.
After the first 30 minutes you can predict everything that is going to happen very easily, I would have rather watched an episode of Pokemon, for at least I would have came away feeling smarter than I did after this movie.
There were implausible moments and a cheesy drawn out cell phone conversation..in the middle of a police chase, with a hackneyed "Shawshank Redemption"/ "Thelma & Louise" ending, but Tyrese Gibson and Megan Goode draw you in and make you want to see where this thing goes.
They look great and had chemistry.(Megan, it's time for you to do more films like "Brick".
Dumb.Hunter Hall who plays the kidnapped son is a cute little boy, but his acting was stilted and unnatural in several scenes to the point of being distracting.
This movie is like a mixture of menace II Society, Bonnie & Clyde, Man on Fire and others, although it does have some certain flaws, but the rest of decent, with tyrese & meagan good deliver nice performances and the game making the best urban movie villain since The Man from Boyz n The Hood, the production's decent, the camera-work is nicer than expectedThe Movie is about a man who's released from prison and gets reunited with his son, then his son gets kidnapped and the only way to save him is rob banks and kill the man (The Game), when we reviewed last year of the dreadful get rich or die trying, it's hard to make a good urban gangsta movie, because gangsta movies aren't interesting movies, there's a flawed plot and few clichés Director Vondie Curtis Hall who recently recovered from that disastrous glitter, explains more differently in this one Waist deep is much more entertaining than Get Rich or Die Trying, but I'm not gonna quite recommended, so thumbs down for me..
If you're looking for a film that doesn't require an overly large amount of thought, great action, and goes by fast, then 'Waist Deep' is the film for you.
It is a not the typical type of film I enjoy (I like films that are psychologically powerful and wildly unpredictable such as 'Saw', 'Se7en', 'Memento', or 'Fight Club'), but I watched it twice and thought 'Waist Deep' is definitely among the more underrated films to be released recently.
Despite this, the film is a great thrill ride that never slows down even though you'll find the film predictable.The plot is straightforward enough, following a man nicknamed O2 (Tyrese Gibson; 'Four Brothers'), a man who is trying to settle down after being recently released from prison.
With the reluctant help of a young woman named Coco (Meagan Good; 'Brick'), O2 vows to take his son back from the vicious gangsters, who are led by the ruthless crime lord Meat (Jayceon 'The Game' Taylor; 'The Documentary' and 'The Doctor's Advocate' rap artist).First off, what stands out is the action.
I really enjoyed watching The Game in this film, and I hope he does another role like this.
Larenz Tate is the final main character of the film, but if you want to see what his character is like, just watch 'Crash', because it's basically the same performance.
Good, but I liked it the first time I saw it.Vondie Curtis Hall, the director, seemed to put a lot of emotion into this film, but forgot to keep at least SOME mystery in the film.
It's 'Waist Deep', a great action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat for the 90 minutes that it runs.
After enlisting the help of the woman who distracted him (Meagan Good in the role of hooker with a heart of gold, O2 learns that his son is being held captive by a ruthless gang leader who wants $100,000 in exchange for the boy.
waist deep was a better movie than I expected, it had a good story of an ex-convict trying to be good but when his son gets kidnapped he has to find him by any means.
Two things wrong with this movie though, one: it had way too much bad language it was like between every line there was a swear word being said.
Second: it had stupid names like the girl was called Coco, the father was O2, his brother was Lucky and the bad guy in the movie was called Big Meat and some rich bad guy was called P-Money.
Waist Deep is Tyrese's best movie to date.
The main attraction of this movie is the chemistry between Meagan Good and Tyrese Gibson.
Some musical artists should never cross over into the acting arena and he is one of them.The movie lacked a believable plot and borrowed from better 'hood' movies, most notably "Boys N' The Hood" and "Set It Off." One thing, Vondie Curtis Hall and Tyrese both stated in press interviews is how they wanted to show the love a black father has for his child and they did that.
Tyrese has a good role in this movie and story plot is good but not really "NEW".
Laurenz Tate is also a very good actor but not as well as his other movies like Menace II Society.
The movie is about Tyrese Gibson whose son was kidnap by The Game.
Yes we have seen movies like this before but it still was a very good flick.
Also Larenz Tate is in this movie who plays Tyrese cousins gives a pretty good performance but not as good as he did in Crash.Check it out8 out of 10 stars.
I was waist deep in tears by the end what an epic film from the game who know he had talent to pull of the performance of a life time.
don't waste your time and go watch this film peace out I was waist deep in tears by the end what an epic film from the game who know he had talent to pull of the performance of a life time.
don't waste your time and go watch this film peace out I was waist deep in tears by the end what an epic film from the game who know he had talent to pull of the performance of a life time.
don't waste your time and go watch this film peace out I was waist deep in tears by the end what an epic film from the game who know he had talent to pull of the performance of a life time.
I liked Larenz tate and Meagan Good a lot in their roles.
I remembered Tyrese Gibson as the hypnotically handsome (and narcissistic) man-child from "Baby Boy", and as the most interesting actor in "Four Brothers", and I was looking forward to seeing what he could do in a noir style action film.
Anyone who has watched action/adventure movies for more than a couple of years could chart every plot point and development in the story arc at least 10 minutes before it happens on screen.
This is another ''Bonnie & Clyde'' ride which features an ensemble cast that includes Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good and The Game in the lead roles, while Larenz Tate and Henry Hunter Hall play other pivotal roles.The film has a simple and interesting story with a strong screenplay, but it did not deliver anything new.
It is a typical action-thriller that people have seen before (which might be a strong reason for why the film is weak).Tyrese Gibson who earlier had acted in Baby Boy, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Four Brothers has showed another side of his acting skills.
His body language, style and his mastermind make his role as O2 to be a wonderful father and an unstoppable action hero who can get near on anybody.Meagan Good who is sexy and beautiful as usual has done a great job and improved her acting skills from her previous films Roll Bounce and Stomp The Yard.
Both Gibson and Good had a great chemistry throughout the movie.The Game who made his acting debut with this film was faithful to his role as ''Big Meat'', who is the main antagonist in the film.
Larenz Tate who played ''Lucky'' and Henry Hunter Hall who played Gibson's son ''Junior'' were at their best.Otherwise this is a film which has much swag, raw Hip-Hop music, good comedy scenes and a lot of action-packed and sentimental scenes.
spoilers awful, horrible, el sucko, stupid, the ending sucked, horrible acting, typical, constant, doesn't make sense, i wish tyrese died, the action sucked, why do you need to buy gas to use the bathroom?, how come every person in the film was a gangster including the pre school teacher?, there's no way he would've survived the crash.
About a "gangster" who loves their kid and the kid gets kidnapped for money, at the end after a few bad jokes and mediocre action, they get the kid back.
this movie isn't that good it is one of those movies that you could probably wait until it comes on hbo or something not worth buying some people here thought this was the best movie but obviously they don't watch movies or know about any good ones the game can't act and the girl just wasn't good either it was not a movie for theaters it should have gone straight to DVD it wasn't a believable drama or action flick but thats what you would expect but I think they promoted it too much.
The ending was one of the worst getting chased by the cops while his friend dies then going in the river and the next he's in Mexico it's a long swim that movie just needs a rewrite or a better director all in all don't waste your money..
'Waist Deep' is another LA located action movie, that never aspires to be more, but is trying hard and partially succeeding in not being too bad in its genre.
The first 60 or 70 minutes of the film will describe his run to get the money, the rest is melodrama and moralistic filling.It's not that bad if an action movie is what you are after.
I didn't just buy it because it had Tyrese Gibson, The Game, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate and a very adorable little boy.
I loved this movie, not just for the actors, or the car chase but for the story.
The flashbacks that Meagan Good has for a while in the movie are interesting but not deep enough to take away from the story line.
Then watch as Tyrese shoots The Game and follow that up with a car chase then a happy ending after a few years in Mexico.
Throw in an alcoholic uncle (Larenz Tate), a drug lord (The Game), violence, twists and an ending that although predictable is good, and you have a good movie.
I usually enjoy Tyrese Gibson, here the whole movie is beneath him.
"Waist Deep" (2006) Directed By: Vondie Curtis-Hall Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Henry Hunter Hall, & The Game MPAA Rating: "R" (for strong violence and pervasive language) I'm going to keep this as brief as possible.
On the slight upside, the leads performances from Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good are credible and almost enough to fool you into thinking that you are enjoying yourselfI said "almost".An ex-convict named O2 (Gibson) is pulled back into the crime ring when his car is stolen with his son (Hall) in the backseat.
Instead, this interesting plot was turned into a mess of a film that nearly bored me to death.Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good are easily the best aspects of the movie.
However, "Waist Deep" is not an entertaining movie.
It was an unsatisfying conclusion to a bad movie.Final Thought: Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good are the only good things about this boring movie.Overall Rating: 3/10 (C)