Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld, Bruce Weitz, Claudia Christian

This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-r...( read more  read more... )ow inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

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PG-13, 98 min.

Directed by: Don Michael Paul

Release Date: November 15, 2002

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003

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  • July 22, 2009
    Pitiful acting, even for a later Seagal flick. What happened to the action in his films, especially the actual hand-to-hand fighting? They actually made a sequel to this one and even though that one stars Bill Goldberg in it, it still can't be as bad as this piece of shit.
  • January 11, 2009
    "The rumor is you went half past dead and came back."

    Let's get this out of the way: YES, Steven Seagal does break someone's neck in this film. You just knew he would....

    Half Past Dead is a film that suffers from atrocious acting. Ja Rule is one of the most lau...( read more)ghable actors in Hollywood. He's unconvincing as a hard-ass tough guy standing at a measly 5'7" 150lbs. One of the most comical attempts at a serious standoff was in the beginning of the film when Ja Rule and his gang are confronted by a single female FBI agent. What ensues is a ridiculous exchange of words that included the line "Today looks like a great day to die" and then followed by an asinine shoot off.

    It's a shame that this film centers around two awful actors (Ja Rule and Seagal) because the plot wasn't half bad. It was intriguing, yet predictable. Morris Chestnut makes an incredibly convincing and chilling bad guy. And Nia Pebbles looked smoking hot for a lady in her 40's.

    Half Past Dead has pretty spectacular action, full of gun fights and martial arts. But overall, it's just a really really lame flick. With better leads than an overrated rapper and a fat black belt fighter, this could've been a good popcorn flick.
  • December 21, 2007
    this was a decent watch because its seagal and im a sucker for that guy. really, this was a silly movie that shows how far seagal has fallen since he was making average movies.
  • September 28, 2007
    You gotta give credit to Steven Seagal for one thing. He's without a dobut he's not giving up his career without a fight. Sadily this movie doesn't prove he's the action star he once was, over just proving he should give it up.
  • May 26, 2007
    A round of applause for the person responsible for that title. No, seriously. It's poetry. More brainless thuggery from the tubbiest martial artist this side of Sammo Hung. It's absolute crap, of course, but Nia Peeples looks great in it!
  • November 18, 2009
    the only semi decent Seagal film I've seen.
  • September 24, 2009
    not bad but i loved my boy Ja Rule in this movie
  • August 15, 2009
    Comercial accion carcelaria
  • June 26, 2009
    Everybody's favourite squinty, rapidly expanding, slap-happy lunkhead is his usual wonderful self in this, his last American movie (to date) to hit the big screen. A low-budget bastard child of THE ROCK (which this script was originally titled!) and DIE HARD, its writer/director ...( read more)and crew have to be given props for maximising their limited resources for some rather impressive action scenes (particularly a basement martial arts sequence where the female villain beats the stuffing out of Ja Rule -- Seagal's obligatory rapper sidekick -- it's a stunner). Inevitably, as with every Seagal film, the plot throws up more questions than answers... Why do the lead male & female villain dress like extras from The Matrix? Why does the villain's scheme actually make no sense, when held up to any sort of examination?? Why are these heavily armed ex-Gulf War vets going to such ridiculous lengths to steal $200 million in gold bullion, when they've clearly spent at least $50 million on weaponry??? (I mean, save the cash and retire to the Bahamas, dudes!) Despite these questions (and many, many more), it's actually not the worst way you can spend a brainless hour-and-a-half. If you want to watch a Seagal flick, you can actually do a lot worse (see EXIT WOUNDS, ON DEADLY GROUND, etc).
  • June 13, 2009
    Well we all know that Ja Rule can't act now add that to a so-so plot and decent action, then throw in Steven Seagal and what do you have...? I don't know either, but I watched it

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November 15, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

About as weak a movie as can be made without actively trying. full review

November 15, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It goes through the motions of an action thriller, but there is a deadness at its center, a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing. full review

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