Very well executed

Some things I liked some I did not.

Really Surprised!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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.

you know,i actually enjoyed this movie.really had a blast.it may be full of plot holes and illogical moments,but i never really thought about it.it was fast paced and fun.lots of action,a few fight scenes that were adequate,not great but not horrible.lots of gun battles.there were some funny moment,some of which might have been unintentional,but some were intentional.i don't think this was trying too hard to be a serious movie.sometimes you just need to shut off your brain for awhile and allow yourself to be entertained.but you have to been in the mood.if you're not,you won't enjoy it.luckily i was.for 95 minutes or so,i forgot about everything else and enjoyed the ride.for me,Half Past Dead is a 7/10

Yes; it's that same old formula. From the Prince of One-Dimension-And -Single-Expression comes yet another vacuous outing.He's an undercover something-or-other. He's not a SEAL, he's not a cook, he's not a born-again-eco-warrior, he's - in the FBI this time, I think.Today, he's banged-up behind bars. Our hero's masquerading as a bad-ass criminal type. And it just so happens that a genuine gang of semi-pathological anti-socials break in, determined to take over the train, er - battleship, I mean town. Oops! it's a prison.Cue some indiscriminate killing to prove how nasty they are. There are innocents taken hostage - must have those. And there are threats and ultimatums and stuff. It seems that one of the inmates is due to fry. And he's taking any knowledge of the whereabouts of his $200 million dollar bullion stash to the grave with him. The gang mean to find out where it is before authorities can throw the switch. But they haven't bargained on Mr S. There's the usual shoot 'em ups where baddies with machine guns can't hit a thing, whilst our hero can hardly miss. There's the usual cliché-stricken dialogue. There's all the typical macho-excess and testosterone posturing. There's also a female with such an astonishing capacity for athletics in a leather trench-coat, that she looks like a failed screen-test for the 'Matrix' franchise making good on her investment in cosmetics and clothes: waste not, want not. Trinity, she ain't. Though she all but runs up the walls.I forget how it ends. What am I saying? Steven Segal systematically bumps 'em all off in various grisly ways. The law triumphs and right prevails. Even the stock-market recovers and a sub-prime mortgage disaster is averted (just kidding).There's no interesting train. There's no beautiful, sexy battleship. There's no nice outdoor location work. It's all shot indoors in splendid prison grey to match the rest of the movie. It's predictable action, it's wholesale slaughter. It's boring, repetitive and ham. It's Steven Segal.Strictly for the fans. They're the one's who give it ridiculously high stars, and call it 'classic'. Each to their own.Not recommended.Incidentally; the title 'Half Past Dead' is actually half past plagiarism. The line appeared in a song called 'The Weight' which featured in the 1968/9 classic movie 'Easy Rider'. It ran: "I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling 'bout half past dead; I just need some place, where I can lay my head". It's been covered by several artists including Bob Dylan's Band.Ain't nothing' new in this world.

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.