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Admirable film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Half Past Dead is a very messy product, and could be one of the worst films of 2003. Hearing how bad this movie is, I had to see, which my mate told me as well. They weren't wrong. We get the kind of non acting or s..t acting from Seagal as we expect. He hasn't improved one iota. The movie is so far fetched, faults a many, which forces the audience to take it as a comedy. That becomes legitimate over a strained end credit sequence, I never expected, where to cure my astonishment, (where I thought I was dreaming) and fuel my amusement, stayed back with a other few. This was also in a much better Seagal vehicle, his previous cinematic one, Exit Wounds. There are some bad performances, but mostly others are good, especially Linda Thorson and the great Tony Plana (Salvador, 187) as the prison warden. Get this, the plots classic, even though illogical. Seagal ends up in prison, purposefully with his convict friend. Part of an undercover operation, he's there to find out who killed his wife. There's also an old guy, about to go to the gas chamber, but has a secret, involving a lot of stashed moolah, some corrupt authorities want badly, where the old codger, awaiting death, stays a resistant SOB. When the prison, Alcatraz, is taken over by them and some outside people, involving a lethal female fetale, who sadly doesn't share a fighting round with Steve, it's Seagal to the rescue. In fact Steve didn't kick much arse in this, believe it or not, which many Seagal fans would of been p...ed. Cinematicaly, Half Past Dead, is the worst film Steve's done. Even at the start, when the bad guys smells Seagal as fishy, again he passes a lie detector test. I swear to you, watch this film just to realize how bad and funny, it is, but somehow being this, still somehow makes it come off better than it should. Good or Bad news, there's a sequel. Not. Seriously "Yes". Half Past Dead is a cool titled movie, emphasis on titled, not movie.

So there's Steven Seagal, and there's a bunch of people that want to kill him because well, just because. There have been so many movies with that exact premise I wonder why I still bother to watch them. I guess it's just that the pure, innocent simplicity to a Seagal movie is very endearing to me. With that said, this movie still kinda blows. I'm okay with the dumb plot about criminals trying to locate 200 million dollars worth of gold (which apparently is just around twenty bars), but I expected some more real action from our main character. All Seagal does is slap some people, and even that is usually done by an obvious double. His acting is also even worse than usual (is that possible?) and his co-stars don't exactly carry the movie either. Maybe because most of them aren't even real actors. Whose idea was it to put Seagal and Ja Rule in an emotional climax? Whoever it was, he's cleaning up aisle three right now. Occasionally there's a good gunfight thrown in the mix, so the movie's not boring all the way through, but it is in fact pretty disappointing.

What a dog. Saw this on a cable station the other evening. They actually changed the title to something less memorable. Must be the network was afraid too many people would recognize the original title of this train wreck.This movie sucked on so many levels that I'm at a loss where to begin. The acting? Well, Steven Seagal will never get an Academy Award, but his efforts here left me dumbstruck. He's a gangster of some sort. You can tell because he speaks in a stilted "street" language that makes him sound impaired. To be fair, that's not his fault. It's obviously the result of a script written by a white guy who wanted to inject ethnic credibility into a prison movie...and failed miserably. Ja Rule comes along for the ride. The best thing I can say about his performance is that he wears a tank top to show us he's tattooed and prison buff.Speaking of which, is Steven so out of shape that he has to cover his physique with heavy coats? Throughout the entire film he's sporting some kind of jacket. It doesn't matter where he is: in prison (where they apparently have no dress code for a star of Seagal's stature), on the run from the law, or in bed with his girlfriend.And I hate to be harsh, but Don Michael Paul's direction does nothing to help the situation. An action movie requires action sequences, not badly choreographed fights that are shot from random angles. Even the explosions - and there are plenty of explosions - are boring. Apparently, they're also invisible explosions, because no matter how many buildings and cars Steven blows up, the law can't follow his trail of carnage.This is really bad, bad stuff. I actually felt bad for Seagal. He never made masterpieces, but this is like a stick in the eye compared to UNDER SIEGE.

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