![]() ![]() Gone is the actor whose vicious and charismatic turn in "Menace II Society" put him on the map. Larenz Tate (as O's cousin Lucky) is a shell of his former self. It also doesn't help when your leading man basically only knows how to do two things: Stare while looking bewildered and yell. The talented Meagan Good is wasted as eye candy (though in the filmmaker's defense, she does make for amazing eye candy) for most of the movie. It's hard to say where this movie goes wrong, though you could start with the casting. O and Coco find new and creative ways of collecting the ransom money while learning more about each other, while Big Meat (What kind of self-respecting villain calls himself that, anyway?) looks "menacingly" into the camera with a face like a stroke victims and eats candy bars. Local crime boss Big Meat (rapper The Game) is holding O's son for ransom, believing that O has a secret stash of money. ![]() Aided by Coco (Meagan Good), a streetwise hustler he just met, he discovers that it was no random carjacking. The thieves drive off with his son in tow. O (Tyrese Gibson, in a rare non-John Singleton helmed movie) is fresh off parole, working as a security officer, and has just picked his son up from school when he's suddenly carjacked. But "Waist Deep" is the rare movie that manages to be both of these things.ĭirector Vondie Curtis Hall ("Glitter") takes us through the streets of L.A. Others are all over the place and illogical. ![]()
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