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Half Past Dead (2002)

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Reviews Counted:86

Fresh:2

Rotten:84

Average Rating:3/10

Consensus: Seagal is now too bulky to make a convincing action hero, and Half Past Dead is too silly and incoherent to deliver any visceral kicks.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: An undercover FBI agent, Sascha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal), takes bullets for his buddy, Nick Frazier (Ja Rule). Nick figures Sascha for dead until the two are reunited again on duty at New... An undercover FBI agent, Sascha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal), takes bullets for his buddy, Nick Frazier (Ja Rule). Nick figures Sascha for dead until the two are reunited again on duty at New Alcatraz (a hellish, high-tech version of the now-defunct prison). At New Alcatraz, criminal mastermind Lester (Bruce Weitz) is set to be executed. Lester knows the whereabouts of a fortune in gold, but isn't talking. With only hours to live, Lester takes a meeting with Sascha, just as corrupt prison official Donny (Morris Chestnut) and his gang (including Nia Peebles) raid New Alcatraz by helicopter and take Lester and a Supreme Court justice hostage. Highly energetic action scenes pay respect to the films of John Woo, and director Don Michael Paul makes many tasteful choices in the film's editing and music. [More]

Starring: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana

Starring: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana, June McPherson, Claudia Christian, Kurupt, Michael Taliferro, Bruce Weitz, Nia Peeples

Director: Don Michael Paul

Director: Don Michael Paul
Screenwriter: Don Michael Paul
Producer: Elie Samaha, Alison Semenza, Steven Seagal, Uwe Schott
Studio: Screen Gems

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A sizeable amount of the budget for this lazy film must have been spent on ammunition.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/07/07
Philip French
Philip French
Guardian [UK]
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Sometimes, when you've just wasted a tenner and a perfectly good evening watching another dumb, gratuitously gun-filled, hackneyed, nonsensical action picture, don't you wish you were as thick, lazy and easily pleased as Hollywood wants you to be?

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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It's quite slick, but Seagal's fans won't necessarily get what they paid for.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/01/03
Simon Braund
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine
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Look upon his fleshy neck, his dodgy hair and his strangely puffy immobile face, ye pantywaist liberals, and tremble!

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
07/08/03
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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It's absolutely worthless nonsense that's almost bad enough to make me wish cinema had never been invented.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
05/20/03
Daily Mirror [UK]

Once upon a time Seagal's fighting made him look pretty deadly. These days he's looking way past dead.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/15/03
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens
BBC
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Here's yet another deafening, preposterous action movie created for extremely undemanding audiences that don't care about logic and coherence.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
03/14/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

I can't think of anything more cringe-inducing than Seagal saying, in a strained would-be ghetto accent, 'We aight.'

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/29/09
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

What is it about Steven Seagal and three-word movie titles?

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Seagal at his most minimal, saying and doing less in this film than in practically any film he's been in. Maybe it's for the best.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
08/16/08
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

The title of this dismal action flick refers to the Seagal character's having suffered a near-death experience, though he's returned from the other side with a remarkable lack of insight.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/06/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Half Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
01/06/07
David Germain
David Germain
Associated Press

... satisfies neither intellectually nor viscerally.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
09/20/04
Mark Collette
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

...makes something retarded like Con Air look like an absolute action classic. And that's saying something.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/16/04
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

[Steven Seagal's] trademark limb-breaking is absent.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
08/01/03
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Half Past Dead translated from Latin means 'Die Hard in a prison,' or so the filmmakers must have believed.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Tyler Hanley
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly

Waaay too much like hard labour.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
05/08/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

The movie doesn't even work as a vehicle for Ja Rule, who's perfectly likable but gets lost in the hullabaloo of helicopter crashes, hostage negotiations, and assault weapons.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marrit Ingman
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle

Some of Seagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures, but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
02/21/03
Bryan Reesman
Bryan Reesman
Citysearch
 
 
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