Review of Half Past Dead (2002) by Keenan S — 05 Apr 2018
Oh, boy! Just what I've always wanted - a bargain bin version of the 90's action cult classic, The Rock. It's very rare for a film to live up to its title, but the title certainly sums up the film quite nicely.
Half Past Dead is a dreadful action film that starts off bad and never gets better by assaulting the viewer with god-awful rap music (By one of the lead stars, Ja Rule) and credits that look and feel like the fever dream of an untalented music video director.
The story is stupid and boring, the acting is beyond dreadful even by the standards of Steven Seagal films, and the action sequences are tedious and uninteresting. Ultimately, it's too boring and lifeless to be salvaged as a guilty pleasure (Which is saying a hell of a lot coming from someone who liked Ballistic: Ecks vs.
Sever and House of the Dead). Half Past Dead would ultimately become the harbinger of the future of Steven Seagal's film output - lazy, derivative nonsense with a liberal sprinkling of a wannabe ghetto film with terrible, terrible rap music.
This review of Half Past Dead (2002) was written by Keenan S on 05 Apr 2018.
Half Past Dead has generally received mixed reviews.
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