Half Past Dead (2002)

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Imagine a film executive looking at the Lethal Weapon duo of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and saying 'Let's copy that formula, except make it suck.' Seagal is fat and tired and is too old for this shit, Ja Rule tries to look menacing and crazy eyed but just looks and sounds stupid. What happened Steven?

Steven Seagal is an undercover officer who has infiltrated a criminal organisation and ends up getting shot by the police and was dead for a while hence the title of the film.Still undercover he ends up in New Alcatraz presumably the authorities must be sick and tired of timeshare touts in San Francisco buying tickets for this place and decided to jail them all.However a group criminals have broken into New Alcatraz just as an inmate is getting executed as he knows the whereabouts of some buried gold. Its left to Seagal to save the day.Here we have have an older flabbier Seagal with I presume a hair weave. Long past his physical prime, it is left to his stunt double to do the action scenes.The film has a few good supporting actors, but the action sequences are dull, the story is flimsy as well as silly, its really nothing to get excited about and its no wonder Seagal was soon to go Straight to DVD.

The movie feels like one big rip-off Michael Bay's „The Rock". Still , it's the smallest problem of the whole movie. A loud and lousy action film, sloppily directed , lazily written and badly acted. There are action scenes in HALF PAST DEAD and none of them are exciting. Fights are badly choreographed and shot from random angles. The explosions, LOT of explosions are boring too.There is lot of bad rap music here and what is even worse a rap star plays a big part in the movie . Yeah , JA Rule is Seagal's sidekick in this one. There is no chemistry between them and I'm still waiting for a rap star that CAN ACT. Jeffrey Atkins certainly can't. I'm not even gonna waste my time to write about Seagal's "acting". Throughout the entire film he's sporting some kind of jacket , probably to hide the fact how fat he is.The plot is thin and you're introduced to some characters with no back-story . And the characters are dull and unlikable .The movie is pretty laughable in places . Seagal plays a Russian , JA Rule fights with Trinity from "The Matrix" , oh wait it's not him , it's WHITE STUNTMAN (Sic!) , Seagal RUNS AWAY from numerous fights , the big twist with "You lied to me" , the hero and villain of an action film not even having one fight together, the inmates have PlayStation 2 consoles in their cells … The film was also cursed with a PG-13 rating After this film, he has only made small screen films. In seeing this film it is very easy to see why. It's not as bad and painful as others say . I did have few laughs and it's a short and forgettable movie. I give it 1/10.

you know,i actually enjoyed this movie.really had a blast.it may be full of plot holes and illogical moments,but i never really thought about it.it was fast paced and fun.lots of action,a few fight scenes that were adequate,not great but not horrible.lots of gun battles.there were some funny moment,some of which might have been unintentional,but some were intentional.i don't think this was trying too hard to be a serious movie.sometimes you just need to shut off your brain for awhile and allow yourself to be entertained.but you have to been in the mood.if you're not,you won't enjoy it.luckily i was.for 95 minutes or so,i forgot about everything else and enjoyed the ride.for me,Half Past Dead is a 7/10