Waist Deep

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Talk about wasted potential.

Well, I'm not really sure why I was looking forward to this one. It was made by the director of Mariah Carey's Glitter.

That's a cheap shot, he also did Gridlock'd which was pretty good. I like Tyrese a lot, and Stephen King had put this on his best 10 of 2006 list. This movie got no love when it came out, but I thought maybe this was one of them underappreciated action films.

Nope.

It gets off to a great start. We got Tyrese, being all likable and whatnot. We got Meagan Good, who good lord is a looker. There's a pretty good shootout. The bad guy is named Big Meat, is played by The Game, and when we first meet him he chops a guy's arm off and then smacks him with it.

After that it's all downhill. Right when the movie really seems to be taking off, and we're expecting another hour or so of Tyrese and Meagan Good going on a crime spree, possibly ending in shootout... it's like someone puts the movie on pause. It begins taken itself seriously, and is mostly a bunch of character scenes, without much action. The big shootout is short lived, and it happens like 25 minutes before the end so that they can fit in some more character development. There is kind of a chase scene at the end, but it's not very exciting because instead of showing crashing cars, it's mostly close ups of Tyrese talking on the phone and having a dramatic conversation with Meagan Good. Some of this shit is so dumb it's almost funny. Almost.

Ugh. When I watch an action movie, I want to see some fucking action. This blows.