Nothing in this story is remotely realistic, and the target audience for urban dramas -- teenage boys -- won't know what to make of its mushy romantic center.
– Jack Mathews,
New York Daily News,
23 Jun 2006
rotten:
For its ever shifting attitudes toward men, women, and murder, Waist Deep is one of the sloppiest movies ever to reach the screen.
– Bill Gallo,
Village Voice,
27 Jun 2006
rotten:
The Game attempts to exude menace through hardcore forehead-wrinkling and gangsta nose-crinkling, but his efforts are more comic than sinister.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
29 Jun 2006
fresh:
Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in [this] genre.
– Gregory Kirschling,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Jul 2006
rotten:
From its non-committal title downwards -- we're a bit worse than ankle deep, but not quite neck deep -- the film includes a final shot that is almost surreal in its implausibility. Waist Deep? More like Deep Waste.