A sizeable amount of the budget for this lazy film must have been spent on ammunition.
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03/07/07
Half Past Dead (2002)
2 %
Reviews Counted: 82 Fresh: 2 Rotten:80 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 38 mins
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 Alcatraz (a hellish, high-tech version of the now-defunct prison). At New Alcatraz, criminal... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana, June McPherson
Director: Don Michael Paul
Screenwriter: Don Michael Paul
Producer: Elie Samaha, Alison Semenza, Steven Seagal, Uwe Schott
Screenwriter: Don Michael Paul
Producer: Elie Samaha, Alison Semenza, Steven Seagal, Uwe Schott
Reviews
Top Critic
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?
06/24/06
Top Critic
It's quite slick, but Seagal's fans won't necessarily get what they paid for.
08/01/03
Top Critic
Look upon his fleshy neck, his dodgy hair and his strangely puffy immobile face, ye pantywaist liberals, and tremble!
07/08/03
Top Critic
It's absolutely worthless nonsense that's almost bad enough to make me wish cinema had never been invented.
05/20/03
Once upon a time Seagal's fighting made him look pretty deadly. These days he's looking way past dead.
04/15/03
Top Critic
Here's yet another deafening, preposterous action movie created for extremely undemanding audiences that don't care about logic and coherence.
03/14/03
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.
01/06/07
Half Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue.
01/06/07
...makes something retarded like Con Air look like an absolute action classic. And that's saying something.
05/16/04
Half Past Dead translated from Latin means 'Die Hard in a prison,' or so the filmmakers must have believed.
05/20/03
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.
03/10/03
Some of Seagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures, but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot.
02/21/03
Three things you can do that would be less painful than sitting through Steven Seagal's latest film "Half Past Dead": Cover your head in honey and stick it down an ant hole; Go clothes shopping with the Olsen twins; Sit through an IRS audit.
12/30/02
If it's another regurgitated action movie you're after, there's no better film than Half Past Dead.
12/23/02
I have no problem with the fact that [Seagal] doesn't use a Russian accent (Do they ever?), but he looks out of shape and tired.
12/08/02
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Film review: This is a real STINKER. Don't waste your time or money. A cinematic disgrace.
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Half Past Dead.
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