It's absolutely worthless nonsense that's almost bad enough to make me wish cinema had never been invented.
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05/20/03
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... [More]
Starring: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana
Director: Don Michael Paul
Reviews for Half Past Dead
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 CriticOnce upon a time Seagal's fighting made him look pretty deadly. These days he's looking way past dead.
04/15/03
Top CriticLook upon his fleshy neck, his dodgy hair and his strangely puffy immobile face, ye pantywaist liberals, and tremble!
07/08/03
Top CriticA sizeable amount of the budget for this lazy film must have been spent on ammunition.
03/07/07
Top CriticHere's yet another deafening, preposterous action movie created for extremely undemanding audiences that don't care about logic and coherence.
03/14/03
It's quite slick, but Seagal's fans won't necessarily get what they paid for.
08/01/03
Top CriticAction/adventure dud.
11/15/02
Has not so much been written as assembled, Frankenstein-like, out of other, marginally better shoot-em-ups.
11/19/02
There is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt Seagal's character ... performs is shot from behind, as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double.
11/15/02
Paul shamelessly guides his film through the motions, without any idea that what he is committing to film here is beyond played out.
11/18/02
It's no use: At this point, the bloated action figure [Seagal] couldn't restore his street cred if he joined the Wu-Tang Clan.
11/13/02
Seagal is bloated and puffy and still the worst actor among all the big action stars.
11/15/02
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
It would have been better if Seagal had signed a 'do not resuscitate' waiver.
11/15/02
Dreary and misogynistic.
11/14/02
If it's another regurgitated action movie you're after, there's no better film than Half Past Dead.
12/23/02
Seagal has too much screen time and when he's on it, he takes up too much space.
12/01/02
Seagal ran out of movies years ago, and this is just the proof.
11/25/02
A puffy-faced Steven Seagal, as an undercover Fed posing as a convict, ties on a doo-rag, exchanges longing buddy-movie glances with a couple of jaunty rap artists (Ja Rule and Kurupt) and goes lumbering off to battle.
11/14/02
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