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NUMBERS
Box Office: $15,361,537
VHS Rentals: $4,140,000
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CONSENSUS
Seagal is now too bulky to make a convincing action hero, and Half Past Dead is too silly and incoherent to deliver any visceral kicks.
CAST & CREW
Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule
Directed by Don Michael Paul
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SYNOPSIS
An undercover FBI agent, Sascha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal), takes bullets for his buddy, Nick Frazier (Ja Rule). Nick figures Sascha for dead until the two are reunited again on duty at New Alcatraz (a hellish, high-tech version of the now-defunct prison). At New Alcatraz, criminal mastermind Lester (Bruce Weitz) is set to be executed. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, pervasive action violence, language, and some sexual content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 38 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 15, 2002
Video: Mar 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Screen Gems
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Prison, Gangsters, Violence, FBI Agents, Heists
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Half Past Dead Site
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 "Seagal, who looks more like Danny Aiello these days, mumbles his way through the movie."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"Ja Rule and Kurupt should have gotten to rap. It would have benefitted the dialogue."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Features nonsensical and laughable plotting, wooden performances, ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
 "Has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of The Rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering?"
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"There is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt Seagal's character ... performs is shot from behind, as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"It has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie, which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"When Seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit, I wanted to stand up in the theater and shout, 'Hey, Kool-Aid!'"
-- Mark Rahner, SEATTLE TIMES
"Most of the action setups are incoherent."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
"Don Michael Paul uses quick-cuts, (very) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double (for Seagal)."
-- Sean O'Connell, FILMCRITIC.COM
"If it's another regurgitated action movie you're after, there's no better film than Half Past Dead."
-- Clint Morris, MOVIEHOLE
"Should have gone straight to video. It looks like an action movie, but it's so poorly made, on all levels, that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY
"The entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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"A rip-off twice removed, modeled after [Seagal's] earlier copycat Under Siege, sometimes referred to as Die Hard on a boat."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Could as easily have been called 'Under Siege 3: In Alcatraz'...a cinematic corpse that never springs to life."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"No, I don't know why Steven Seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Some of Seagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures, but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot."
-- Bryan Reesman, CITYSEARCH
"Has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short, tries its best to hide the fact that Seagal's overweight and out of shape."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
"Seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory."
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"Has not so much been written as assembled, Frankenstein-like, out of other, marginally better shoot-em-ups."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"Seagal ran out of movies years ago, and this is just the proof."
-- Danny Minton, KBTV-NBC (BEAUMONT, TX)
"[Seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's Razzie."
-- Joe McGovern, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
"Bang! Zoom! It's actually pretty funny, but in all the wrong places."
-- Eric Lurio, GREENWICH VILLAGE GAZETTE
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 3/10 |
"Hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Doesn't deliver a great story, nor is the action as gripping as in past Seagal films."
-- Doris N. Truong, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"This is so bad."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Divertingly ridiculous, headbangingly noisy."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem to hit Sascha."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Wildly incompetent but brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: Totally Past His Prime."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"Just like every other Seagal movie, only louder and without that silly ponytail."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"After several scenes of this tacky nonsense, you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of Jerry Bruckheimer productions, especially because Half Past Dead is like The Rock on a Wal-Mart budget."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"This is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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"I'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers B-flick with just a suspension of disbelief. Rather, you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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