Waist deep

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Movie
German title Waist deep
Original title Waist deep
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director By Curtis-Hall
script By Curtis-Hall,
Michael Mahern ,
Darin Scott
production Preston Holmes
music Terence Blanchard ,
Howard Drossin ,
Mr. Porter
camera Shane Hurlbut
cut Terilyn A. Shropshire
occupation

Waist Deep (translated: "hip high"; alternative title: Rapid Fury - Merciless Revenge , Up to the Neck ) is an American action thriller from 2006 in which the actors Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good and the rapper The Game play the leading roles. The film is loosely based on Bonnie and Clyde from 1967, the story of a gangster couple who robbed banks together and ran away from the police. In this remake, however, the raids have a completely different reason.

action

Otis, which is also called O2, because it disappears quickly in the event of a robbery, i.e. H. can vanish into thin air , has just been released from prison and is trying to lead a civil life for the sake of his son Otis Jr. without robberies or the like. That's why he took a job as a security guard.

Since he doesn't have time to pick up his son from school because of his new job, he asked his brother Lucky to do so. But when he calls at work because he can't, Otis endangers his job and fetches his son himself. When his son asks what would happen if he wasn't picked up, he swears that he'll always pick him up and will be there for him. A few minutes later, this promise is put to the test when O2 is mugged in the car and the gangster steals his car with his son in the back seat. Chasing the car, Otis becomes involved in a shootout with the kidnappers, killing two of them. This later makes it impossible for him to report the theft and kidnapping to the police as he has only been out on parole for a month.

Instead, he discovers Coco, the girl who wanted to sell him (probably) stolen suits shortly before the robbery. This works for P Money. O2 suspects that she was the bait for the attack on him and confronts her. He demands that she help him get his son back. She does that too; first out of fear, then as an opportunity to change her own life, because she lives as P Moneys "girl" in slavish dependence; mutual help turns into affection. Lucky, Otis 'unreliable brother, who works for Big Meat, the brutal leader of a crime syndicate , also offers to help find Otis' son. After asking around for a few hours, Lucky comes back with bad news: Junior is now in the hands of Big Meats and Big Meat demands a ransom of 100,000 US dollars by midnight the following day, otherwise he will kill O2's son. The two have previously committed crimes together, and Meat thinks O2 is still hiding the $ 100,000 from their latest coup - the coup that put O2 in jail for six years. O2 doesn't have the money anymore, so Junior's mother ran away.

Desperate out of concern for his son, O2 comes up with a plan that will compare them to Bonnie and Clyde in the media: He and Coco steal money from P Moneys and Big Meats, making it look like they're stealing from each other which is supposed to provoke a gang war in which they will hopefully both shoot each other. In this mess, O2 hopes to get his son back.

Awards

Tyrese Gibsons was nominated for the brilliantly played lead role at the Black Movie Awards . It was also there Meagan Good as best actress nomination. The film was nominated for the best hip-hop film at the BET HipHop Movie Awards .

Reviews

“ Waist Deep is sometimes a film that is fun, although it is neither advertised nor has a very large budget or very big names. […] Director Vondie Curtis-Hall really got a well-coordinated crew here. Each of the main characters plays their role believably and convincingly. Especially Tyrese Gibson, he manages the balancing act between a loving father, simply abandoned by his mother, and a tough ex-gangster. The camera work is also pleasant, dynamic at the right time and also calm and empathizing with the characters. The film is well thought out and, in addition to action, also offers a lot of fun and even heartache that doesn't seem too cheesy. You just buy from the showmen that the somewhat daring people they play would really act that way. Ultimately, it's about more than just great action, the film shows how people come to terms with a situation that, when they got up in the morning, they hadn't even guessed, that they were simply pushed into. Nevertheless, O2 and Coco in particular try to make the best of it in the end. In addition, The Game, which has apparently already found something of a parade role here, skillfully plays the absolutist gangster and bestial creep. Even if you would have liked to have seen the ending a little more crumbled, the film finally offers an all-round successful, well-considered action-heavy story that even goes a little on the heart - and that's all the film wants. "

- Sascha Lowitzki : published on August 16, 2007 on Zelluloid.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MovieGod.de