There are some good things to this film, however, many of which involve a still hot 40+ Nia Peeples kicking butt in tight leather with a barenaked midriff. The 49ers are sometimes incredibly accurate (like when Nia Peeples manages to assassinate three guards from a spinning parachute) and other times worse shots than the Stormtroopers in “Star Wars” (like when Morris Chestnut can’t machinegun Seagal’s 300-pound carcass running down a narrow corridor). However, even for action fans, there are shootouts that drag on and on with bullets flying at nothing in particular. If you want to see plenty of gunfire and explosions, this is your bag.
#Half past dead movie
Is this our definition of a movie for an urban or black audience? A movie with criminals as the main characters? What is movie marketing coming to? We have a gang of murderers, rapists and thieves, and we’re supposed to root for them simply because they’re the underdogs. Until you find out that Sascha is actually an FBI agent deep undercover (a surprise almost as shocking as Rosie O’Donnell admitting she is gay), there are no good guys. It glorifies violent criminals, turning them into heroes in the end. The PG-13 rating is just plain irresponsible considering the level of violence and gunplay, which dovetails into the root problem of this film. Maybe they wanted to make him look (or rather, sound) better. Finally, producers have found someone who mumbles as much as Seagal. Mark my words: It’s only a matter of time before we see Seagal take the screen with Martin Lawrence in another buddy film.Īlthough Ja Rule and Seagal have decent chemistry, listening to their excruciating dialogue is like hearing a formal debate between Bob Dylan and Ozzy Osbourne. Meanwhile, Sascha rallies the rag-tag group of prisoners to retake the prison and save the hostages.Īfter Seagal’s reinvention of his career with last year’s “Exit Wounds” (which probably owes more of it’s success to DMX than Seagal), he has found a new niche – the urban action film. Before he can be sizzled, mercenaries calling themselves The 49ers break into the prison and take everyone hostage in hopes that Lester will tell them where he hid the money. In addition, there is a death row inmate named Lester (Bruce Weitz) to be executed for the robbery of $200 million and the death of 5 federal agents.
Sascha and Nick are now doing hard time together. Yup, another film about the classic prison being reopened for business. When their latest car boost goes awry with an FBI bust, Nick and Sascha are arrested.įlash forward two years to New Alcatraz. His “sponsor” into the organization is street-punk-turned-gangster Nick (Ja Rule). The plot is another remake of Steven Seagal’s 1992 hit “Under Siege.” Seagal plays an incredibly oily Sascha Petrosevitch, a Russian car thief working for one of the largest crime syndicates in the world. And the deadly.” They should have stuck with simply, “The Bad.” The tag line for “Half Past Dead” is “The good. Written and Directed by: Don Michael Paul
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