I can't think of anything more cringe-inducing than Seagal saying, in a strained would-be ghetto accent, 'We aight.'
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01/29/09
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana
Director: Don Michael Paul
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Reviews for Half Past Dead
What is it about Steven Seagal and three-word movie titles?
10/18/08
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.
08/16/08
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03/10/07
Top CriticA sizeable amount of the budget for this lazy film must have been spent on ammunition.
03/07/07
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
Top CriticHalf Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue.
01/06/07
Top CriticSometimes, 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
... satisfies neither intellectually nor viscerally.
09/20/04
...makes something retarded like Con Air look like an absolute action classic. And that's saying something.
05/16/04
[Steven Seagal's] trademark limb-breaking is absent.
08/01/03
It's quite slick, but Seagal's fans won't necessarily get what they paid for.
08/01/03
Look upon his fleshy neck, his dodgy hair and his strangely puffy immobile face, ye pantywaist liberals, and tremble!
07/08/03
It's absolutely worthless nonsense that's almost bad enough to make me wish cinema had never been invented.
05/20/03
Half Past Dead translated from Latin means 'Die Hard in a prison,' or so the filmmakers must have believed.
05/20/03
Waaay too much like hard labour.
05/08/03
Once upon a time Seagal's fighting made him look pretty deadly. These days he's looking way past dead.
04/15/03
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 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
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