Half Past Dead

Name: Half Past Dead
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: November 15, 2002
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 23
Cast: Bruce Weitz, Ja Rule, Matt Battaglia, Morris Chestnut, Steven Seagal

2002

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Screen Gems | Release Date: November 15, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Bruce Weitz, Ja Rule, Matt Battaglia, Morris Chestnut, Steven Seagal

Summary: An undercover agent (Seagal) must try to stop a criminal mastermind (Chestnut) who plans to infiltrate a high-tech super-prison to persuade a man on death row to tell him where he hid $200 million in gold.

Director: Don Michael Paul

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 98 min

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Nathan Rabin

So audaciously bad it's good, which is about as close to quality as Seagal is likely to get these days. Read full review

David Chute

The most exhilarating fight by far is an acrobatic wall climber between Ja Rule and Nia Peeples, choreographed by Hong Kong's Xin Xin Xong (The Musketeer) who, in terms of thrills per minute, is the movie's real star. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

The martial arts are well represented, the gentler arts -- like, for example, acting -- are not. Read full review

Robert Koehler

In recent years, Steven Seagal has been steadily losing any firm standing as even a B-grade actioner icon, and by the genre's most basic standards, he now displays a visible fatigue and lack of interest that proves deadlier than any of his hero's skills. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

Call this one "Die Hard" on Alcatraz, and this time the "cuckoo crazy" maverick has got the homeboys on his side. Read full review

Bruce Fretts

When Seagal's undercover FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch waddles into the big house wearing a do-rag and a billowing blue jumpsuit, it's the funniest jailhouse-flick scene since Gene Wilder's white-boy strut in ''Stir Crazy.'' Read full review

Marrit Ingman

“This is just like a video game,” observes rapper-cum-actor Ja Rule, taking aim during one of the myriad firefights that comprise this lunkheaded, vaguely dystopic actioner. Man, is it ever. Read full review

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SuzieW.

Mar 9, 2003

Mr. Steven Seagal, You are awesome, amazing and beautiful !! suzie.

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moviesRawsome

Aug 23, 2011

A kickass movie its one of those movies that i can watch everyday. its simple straight forward the action is just fun, the script is filled with holes but who cares its not like you where exspecting a steven s. is going to get an academy award just simply have fun wacthing it.

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d88b

Jan 7, 2023

A poormans version of the blockbuster The Rock. It's just sad to see the downfall of what once where

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