Rotten
The title of this dismal action flick refers to the Seagal character's having suffered a near-death experience, though he's returned from the other side with a remarkable lack of insight.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Half Past Dead
The good. The bad. And the deadly.
2002 · 1h 38m · PG-13
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Don Michael Paul
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Half Past Dead
Overview
A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
Director and cast
- Don Michael Paul Director
- Steven Seagal as Sasha Petrosevitch
- Morris Chestnut as Donald Robert Johnson
- Ja Rule as Nicolas 'Nick' Frazier
- Nia Peeples as 49er Six
- Alexandra Kamp as Reporter
- Claudia Christian as Special Agent Ellen Williams
- Tony Plana as Warden El Fuego
- Kurupt as Twitch
- Michael Taliferro as Little Joe
- Bruce Weitz as Lester McKenna
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
3%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Half Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue.
David Germain, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
Sometimes, when you've just wasted a tenner and a perfectly good evening watching another dumb, gratuitously gun-filled, hackneyed, nonsensical action picture, don't you wish you were as thick, lazy and easily pleased as Hollywood wants you to be?
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
Corny, nonsensical buddy flick.
Walter Dawkins, Village Voice
Rotten
This is so bad.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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