vmalast Awful, just awful. I honestly couldn't finish it. Ya, I know it's pure fluff. Just an ego stroke for Mr. Seagal. I've seen better action on a kindergarten playground and, better acting. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to finish gouging out my eyes.

Maziun The movie feels like one big rip-off Michael Bay's „The Rock". Still , it's the smallest problem of the whole movie. A loud and lousy action film, sloppily directed , lazily written and badly acted. There are action scenes in HALF PAST DEAD and none of them are exciting. Fights are badly choreographed and shot from random angles. The explosions, LOT of explosions are boring too.There is lot of bad rap music here and what is even worse a rap star plays a big part in the movie . Yeah , JA Rule is Seagal's sidekick in this one. There is no chemistry between them and I'm still waiting for a rap star that CAN ACT. Jeffrey Atkins certainly can't. I'm not even gonna waste my time to write about Seagal's "acting". Throughout the entire film he's sporting some kind of jacket , probably to hide the fact how fat he is.The plot is thin and you're introduced to some characters with no back-story . And the characters are dull and unlikable .The movie is pretty laughable in places . Seagal plays a Russian , JA Rule fights with Trinity from "The Matrix" , oh wait it's not him , it's WHITE STUNTMAN (Sic!) , Seagal RUNS AWAY from numerous fights , the big twist with "You lied to me" , the hero and villain of an action film not even having one fight together, the inmates have PlayStation 2 consoles in their cells … The film was also cursed with a PG-13 rating After this film, he has only made small screen films. In seeing this film it is very easy to see why. It's not as bad and painful as others say . I did have few laughs and it's a short and forgettable movie. I give it 1/10.

disdressed12 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

SatanicMushrooms Bad acting. Flashy special effects. Terrible storyline, and a complete dog's breakfast of a script, sounds just like your average Seagal movie. Even though I still watched this movie knowing full well it wasn't going to be remarkably good, I was still disgusted, even insulted, at how excruciatingly painful this film was to watch.The synopsis of this film is interesting enough - an undercover agent on Alcatraz infiltrating a mafia's inner circle, suddenly highly-trained commandos pop up, blah blah blah.This is the only redeeming factor in this film. The acting is ****ing pathetic. The so-called acting is hopeless. Seagal puts as much authenticity into his acting in this screen as a rusty fork, and the other characters are no better. The realism of this film, aside from the leaps-and-bounds in technology, is so far from reality you're wondering if you're watching a comedy as opposed to a so-called action flick. Example: The prison warden. The prison warden is a middle-aged Mexican who wanders around in his fancy leather jacket and for some reason allows the inmates to have PlayStation 2 consoles in their cells.The actual realism of the prison itself is beyond a joke. Example: The intake processing scene, Seagal just moseys on over to another line to talk to Ja Rule, completely unheckled by guards. Seagal and Ja Rule then proceed to kick the crap out of four Federal Prison Guards.That's right. In the entire building, there were only four guards, none of them carrying firearms. If I knew prison was that easy, I'd have taken up a life of crime.The progression of the plot in Half Past Dead is complete filth. You're introduced to some characters, they're given no backstory or explanation as to why their in prison/being all evil-like. In fact, you're not even aware of Seagal being undercover until the last half-hour (the writers obviously thought they could make it a big Sopranos-style moment, yet failed to bear in mind that it says UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT in a nice size-14 font on the back of the DVD's case.), you're not given a reason for the bad-guys doing what they're doing until the last twenty minutes, and the climax is just....painful.I came in with low expectations, but I came out insulted thinking that Hollywood believe that this kind of trash is what appeals to people nowadays. Shame on you Seagal.