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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
If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of The Rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering?
Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem to hit Sascha.
Top CriticFirst-time director Don Michael Paul can't make the action move, though he wisely keeps the lighting dark and murky so we can barely see whether withering star Seagal really can keep up.
Top CriticThe entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory.
Divertingly ridiculous, headbangingly noisy.
Top CriticWhen Seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit, I wanted to stand up in the theater and shout, 'Hey, Kool-Aid!'
While action fans might find some of the fight sequences and related material to their non-discriminative liking, there's nothing here that you haven't seen or that's been done better before.
About as weak a movie as can be made without actively trying.
Top CriticBang! Zoom! It's actually pretty funny, but in all the wrong places.
A rip-off twice removed, modeled after [Seagal's] earlier copycat Under Siege, sometimes referred to as Die Hard on a boat.
Ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action.
Top CriticThere 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.
Seagal is bloated and puffy and still the worst actor among all the big action stars.
It's loud, preposterous and mindless, but it rushes headlong like some runaway train mowing down action cliches along the way.
Features nonsensical and laughable plotting, wooden performances, ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory.
Wildly incompetent but brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: Totally Past His Prime.
Top CriticAbout as original as my last date's excuse for not wanting to go out with me anymore ('It's not you, it's me.')
Seagal, who looks more like Danny Aiello these days, mumbles his way through the movie.
Action/adventure dud.
Has the cheesy, deadened feel of a straight-to-cable film.
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