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
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A sizeable amount of the budget for this lazy film must have been spent on ammunition. Full Review |
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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 |
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2/5 |
It's quite slick, but Seagal's fans won't necessarily get what they paid for. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Look upon his fleshy neck, his dodgy hair and his strangely puffy immobile face, ye pantywaist liberals, and tremble! Full Review |
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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 |
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2/5 |
Once upon a time Seagal's fighting made him look pretty deadly. These days he's looking way past dead. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Here's yet another deafening, preposterous action movie created for extremely undemanding audiences that don't care about logic and coherence. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
I can't think of anything more cringe-inducing than Seagal saying, in a strained would-be ghetto accent, 'We aight.' Full Review |
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What is it about Steven Seagal and three-word movie titles? Full Review |
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3/10 |
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 |
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1/4 |
Click to read the article Full Review |
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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 |
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Half Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue. Full Review |
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2/4 |
... satisfies neither intellectually nor viscerally. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
...makes something retarded like Con Air look like an absolute action classic. And that's saying something. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
[Steven Seagal's] trademark limb-breaking is absent. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Half Past Dead translated from Latin means 'Die Hard in a prison,' or so the filmmakers must have believed. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Waaay too much like hard labour. Full Review |
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0/5 |
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 |
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3/10 |
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 |
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