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Half Past Dead (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 84

Fresh: 2

Rotten:82

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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for pervasive action violence, language and some sexual content

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Nov 15, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $15,361,537

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

Full Review Source: Mr. Brown's Movies | comment Comment
01/29/09
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
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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
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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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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
Guardian [UK]

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
Chicago Reader
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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.

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01/06/07
David Germain
Associated Press
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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
Time Out

... satisfies neither intellectually nor viscerally.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
09/20/04
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
eFilmCritic.com

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

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

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
Empire Magazine

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
Guardian [UK]

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]

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
Palo Alto Weekly

Waaay too much like hard labour.

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

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
BBC

Here's yet another deafening, preposterous action movie created for extremely undemanding audiences that don't care about logic and coherence.

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03/14/03
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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
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
Citysearch
 
 
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