One of the best films i have seen

How sad is this?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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

Half Past Dead (2002): Dir: Don Michael Paul / Cast: Steven Seagal, Ja Rule, Morris Chestnut, Nia Peeples, Claudia Christian: Another pathetic excuse for an action film and it is about as stupid as they get. Title seems to suggest a near death experience that the victim overcomes. The victim is Steven Seagal who took a bullet for hoodlum buddy Ja Rule. He recovers and goes undercover inside a prison where he encounters Ja Rule again. Apparently Rule's boss killed Seagal's wife although he sees him as a friend despite his poor life choices. Central plot regards the planning at an Alcatrez type prison for an execution of an elderly man guilty of killing innocent people during a robbery attempt. He stole and hid gold bars and only gives the whereabouts to Seagal. The plot is reduced to numerous violent encounters where bullets parade the air. Director Don Michael Paul does well with the action with Seagal still playing an overblown ass-kicking moron that he has played in every other witless film that he saw as a great acting opportunity. Ja Rule tags along in a role played by numerous other actors in Seagal films. He is that moron sidekick who helps ass kick. Also wasted are Morris Chestnut and Nia Peeples who hopefully won't have to suffer career damage forever because of this. Pointless garbage to the very end this film should be re-titled Half Past Dense. Score: 2 / 10

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.

The only bad part of this film is Steven Seagal,who now is old and fat so 1star off.Otherwise pure fantasy rush like the older more fit Seagal flicks.Who cares about plot in a good Seagal flick? Here he plays a DEEP FBI undercover agent,Sasha Petrosevitch, who becomes tight with Ja Rule as Nicolas 'Nick' Frazier as a way to get to the guy that killed his wife.Along the way they wind up in Alcatraz now run by Tony Plana as Warden El Fuego who is about to execute Bruce Weitz as Lester McKenna who is to die for a gold robbery of 200 million that left 5 federal agents dead.From there the plot really goes wild as you'd expect in a pure action flick.Add Morris Chestnut as bad guy 49er One / Donald Robert Johnson and Nia Peeples as sexy badass 49er Six and Seagals boss Claudia Christian as Special Agent Ellen Williams and a once really sexy from my youth Linda Thorson (tv series the avengers) but now a older woman as Judge Jane McPherson and good supporting actors, what more do you want??Oh even a closing credits for laughs scene with Kurupt and Mo'Nique. Released in 2002 it only runs 98 minutes.I can't get Ima bang by DMX out of my head.

When this film hit theaters Steven Seagal still had a presence on the big screen. After this film, he has only made small screen films. In seeing this film it is very easy to see why. Bluntly put: In "Half Past Dead" there is not the faintest glimmer of anything that slightly resembles something original. The only real good thing about this film is the catchy title (arguably good for a straight forward action flick) and somewhat clever tagline that references one the best all time films, both of which are probably the only reason this film made it to the big screen.When watching this film you can see plenty of ironies. The set pieces are good enough for a big screen film, but the editing and cinematography omit key seconds that would normally show such things as blood in order to secure the "commercially safe" PG-13 rating. Roger Ebert's point about this was golden. The lack of profanity seems odd since the movie is all about violent criminals. The supposed star shows not one bit of muscle due to his wearing a trench coat. The opening scene has the hero and his buddy driving as if they are being chased only they are not being chased and due to that editing mentioned earlier it looks like people are not shooting at anything. What's the point of all this? Even the main villain has one of the most ridiculous deaths that is nothing like a big cop out for a finale.What does heroes escaping in a car from nothing, people shooting at nothing and the hero and villain of an action film not even having one fight all add up to? The answer is hard to pinpoint, but it is even worse than your typical direct-to-DVD action movie that has no stars in it. At least those movies don't cheat you out of what you want to see: violence. And if a movie shows violence, it might as well show it in full. Since showing people getting shot but as long as there is no blood is seemingly "appropriate" for kids, is simply absurd. And the results as displayed here are Full Past Ridiculous. --- 2/10BsCDb classification: Ages 13+ -- violence