Waist Deep



Waist Deep is a 2006 action film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. It is a loose remake of Bonnie and Clyde.

Otis (Tyrese Gibson) is an ex-con in southern Los Angeles, also known as "02" due to his prior ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen. Having been released, he has decided to try and go straight for the sake of his son, Junior (played by director Vondie's son Henry Hunter Hall). Alas, one day while driving Junior home from school Otis is carjacked whilst Junior is asleep in the back street. Junior winds up in the hands of Big Meat (Jayceon "Game" Taylor), a vicious local ganglord and Otis' former partner in crime. Meat (erroneously) thinks that Otis is hoarding the $100,000 dollars they made on their last job together - the job that landed Otis in prison. Now he wants the money. He gives Otis until midnight the following night or else he will kill Junior. Otis teams up with Coco (Meagan Good), a woman who sells stolen suits under the employ of rival ganglord P Money, to try and raise the money in time...


 * Cliché Storm: Many critics felt as such.