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www.ew.com - : He gave us Glitter, and yet actor Vondie Curtis Hall is actually a fine director. His underrated debut, 1997's Gridlock'd, was much more thoughtful than you'd think. Its B-movie stupidities aside, so too is Waist Deep, Curtis Hall's latest. The plot is pure urban fantasy: In an attempt to rescue his son from kidnapping carjackers, an ex-con named O2 (Tyrese Gibson) all but bulldozes through all of L.A. with a hot sidekick (Meagan Good). But Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in the genre. As long as his next movie's not a Glitter sequel, we're there. more...
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www.nydailynews.com - : Waist Deep. Action thriller about an urban Bonnie & Clyde stealing money to pay ransom for a kidnapped boy. With Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate. Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. (1:37) R: violence, language. Area theaters. more...
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www.themoviechicks.com - : O2 (Tyrese Gibson) is an ex-con working in the “security guard with a gun” release program – he’s a good guy now who has done his time and just wants to raise his son Junior (H. Hunter Hall). In the midst of a South LA riot, a sexy young thing, Coco (Meagan Good), sets him up for a car-jacking. The bad guys make the unforgivable mistake of taking off with Junior still in the backseat. O2 tracks down Coco and forces her to cooperate until he finds out who has his kid. He sends his cousin Lucky (Larenz Tate) to find out the word on the street and it’s not good news – one of the drug kingpins, Meat (The Game), has his boy more...
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