Half Past Dead

Half Past Dead

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Half Past Dead

Reviewed by Arnita D. Brown, 2010-01-04

Sascha Petrosevitch is a widowed undercover agent posing as a tough, international car thief. He has many friends on both sides of the law. One of them, career criminal Nick Frazier, has been like a brother to him. One night while on a heist job, Sascha and Nick are intercepted by a female FBI agent, EZ Williams, who, unbeknownst to Nick, is working in tandem with Sascha. Nice action movie.

Well, I know Seagal's getting older, but 'Half Past Dead' seems a little harsh...

Reviewed by Craig Edwards, 2009-07-12

Half Past Dead (2002) After the success of Exit Wounds, Steven Seagal surrounded himself with more hip hop heroes for this, one of his last Big Screen Action Flicks. Seagal is Sascha Petrosevitch, a criminal recruited by Nick (Ja Rule) to work for big time mastermind Sonny (Richard Bremmer). But Sascha and Nick are soon caught and sent to a remodeled and renovated Alcatraz, which has a really cool new execution chamber with the choice of five different ways to die. A criminal named Lester (Bruce Weitz) is scheduled to be the first to go in the new death room, but not before several terrorist/criminals led by Donnie (Morris Chestnut) pop up looking for the location of some gold Lester stole and hid. It's then that Sascha reveals the truth--that he is an undercover FBI agent and it's up to him and his new pal Nick to stop the bad guys. From here this is standard Seagal territory, with lots of bone snapping fights and action aplenty. Seagal is chunking back up though, so the editing team is called on to assist him in regaining his speed of old, but the other, younger cast members acquit themselves pretty well in the fightin' and blowin' stuff up arenas. Writer/director Don Michael Paul used to be an actor, with lots of tv series and tv movies under his belt. He's been away from the lens side of the camera for a while, writing and directing several episodes of a varied assortment of tv shows, and he also wrote the script for Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man, that rather strange Don Johnson/Mickey Rourke movie from 1991. He does a workmanlike job with both of his assignments here, not breaking much new ground, but providing the required elements in the required doses at the required intervals. While this is a somewhat lesser light in the Seagal Ouevre, it has enough to recommend it to hardcore fans, including the cool casting of former Avengers star Linda Thorson as a judge, and the somewhat goofy casting of Don Michael Paul's former producer boss Stephen J. Cannell as the head of the Bureau of Prisons (?) If you're looking for some simple action on a medium to small scale, this flick will serve your purpose. All others need not apply. Also with Nia Peeples and Claudia Christian.

Wow What Action!

Reviewed by Douglas E. Kerr, 2009-04-06

I have lots of Steven's movies and This Is A Hit! He has his moves back and the music is excellent! All the other actors did a Great Job! :)

Better than I thought it would be but nothing too impressive

Reviewed by Derrick Dunn, 2008-09-07

When I first saw the trailer for Half Past Dead I thought film would be allright but then I found it was PG-13 and named it a stinker on arrival. I'll admit my opinon was wrong while the film isn't Segal's best it's not his worst either. The action seqeunces in the film are okay, I think there could have been more martial arts fights and Ja Rule is good as alwayas. Morris Chestnut makes a good bad guy (he hasn't played one since The Inkwell) and Kurput is good in his small role. The film is full of errrors and non believeable stunts but if you're willing to look past that and just wanna waste 90 min then do so with this film. It's not bad or good just aight.

Awesome Movie!!!

Reviewed by Ryan, 2008-09-02

This is a great movie!!! My wife doesn't like Seagal movies at all but she loved this one. Some movies are just worth renting, but this one is a must-have for your Blu-Ray collection!