![]() ![]() Let’s be honest neither movie is amazing but I’m going to have to go with the first movie because it at least has Seagal and Kurupt isn’t the lead. I literally can’t remember much else about it but if you haven’t watched it by now then you’re probably never going to. It’s nothing new in terms of story but the action is well directed with coherent fight scenes. I did however enjoy Robert Madrid as Cortez who is a quietly menacing villain and I thought he had real screen presence. ![]() When he comes dressed in the pimp costume at the end I was wondering if this was meant to be funny but it really wasn’t. Now back to Kurupt why bring back the least interesting character from the first movie? He isn’t funny or sympathetic his character is just an annoying little bitch and I was praying one of the other inmates would shank him and be done with it. You still wouldn’t spill his pint though… It moves along at a breezy pace and Goldberg is actually pretty decent as William Burke he gives the movie its heart and his character isn’t the scary thug you think he’ll be at first. Like the first movie there is plenty of action and a stand out scene is the fight between director Art Camacho and Bill Goldberg which has Camacho demonstrating his ass kicking skills rather nicely. The first Half Past Dead starring Steven Seagal was hardly worth getting a sequel to but we got one anyway. So Half Past Dead isn’t one of Seagal’s finest hours with watered down action that doesn’t help the unoriginal story and bland script. There are real explosions and the fight choreography is well done, despite the whole being thrown across the room thing. It’s not a total loss though it is well paced and the action is slickly done, if tame. The script is also pretty forgettable with no really memorable lines, except for Ja Rule trying to teach Seagal how to say “Aiiight” which was excruciating. I’m not sure if Kurupt’s character Twitch was meant to be funny or what the end credits scene was all about but I was mostly just bemused by it…Īlso, why is everyone in this new Alcatraz prison so bloody nice? You’ve got the nicest, fairest warden ever and the criminals who all work together making it look almost appealing! That’s one of my biggest problems with the movie is that we get very little of Seagal bitch-slapping people which is what we’re really paying to see. I was disappointed that Seagal didn’t get to have a hand to hand fight at the end with Morris as that’s always the best part of his films. ![]() Thankfully he’s got a better role in this movie even if it is totally forgettable. ![]() Morris Chestnut is an entertaining villain and you’ll remember him as the unfunny sidekick from Seagal’s Under Siege 2. Ja Rule is also not the world’s greatest actor and it’s no surprise we haven’t seen him in much since. There isn’t really any violence as it all happens off-screen and like I said, it all feels like The Rock and several other, better movies. This is one of the few PG-13 movies of Seagal’s career and it should be the only one the music is all cut to shit with all of the swearing removed, which is more distracting than anything. The action is hilariously over the top with people being thrown around like rag dolls which totally takes you out of the action at times. Then in 2007 we got a sequel… not starring Steven Seagal. Just when we thought Steven Seagal was going to have a big theatrical comeback after the success of Exit Wounds, he starred in this very silly actioner which is far too similar to Michael Bay’s The Rock but nowhere near as good. ![]()
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