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Embarrassing, even for Seagal
I've only seen this one on cable, and it's about as ludicrous as you'd expect (although it is amusing the lengths the movie goes to to keep the portly Seagal *off* camera). It's like the really crappy movie on late night cable that you happened to come upon. As a matter of fact, it *is* that crappy late night cable movie I came upon! <
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>My real question, though, is this: who the heck is this Jeff Shannon who writes so many editor reviews for Amazon? He writes fluff reviews for even the most abominable flicks -- take his blurb here for this piece of garbage: 'Half Past Dead isn't half bad'. Huh?! Name *one* movie that's more incompetently made from top to bottom, more ineptly directed and acted, and more insulting to its supposed audience. I'm astounded that this ever got a theatrical run -- it's direct to video all the way. <
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>This one even makes some of Seagal's mediocre movies look like classics in comparison. 'Fire Down Below' is 'Die Hard' compared to this.

Well Steven Segal IS a bad actor, but the action deserves 3stars
I saw this in theatre's, and didn't expect much goin in, but it looked like an entertaining action flick, and even though Segal is old and has one heck of a gut, and it was funny watching him walk all thug like in prison with that bandana on his head trying to look all bad ass, which turned out to be comical he probably was trying to hide his gray hairs and baldness, you have to give him some credit for the moves he did during the fighting scenes. Yes he has always been a terrible actor and not very many people have liked him, but action movies is what he does, like Arnold. You dont have to act well in actions, and yes they do come off as being quite cheesy and unrealistic, but it doesn't fail to entertain, even for those who arent that into actions, like me. Alot of parts were cheesy in half past dead, like when the music blasted as they walked with guns, as if it's cool to be a homicidal maniac who kills cops for no reason. But what do you expect. It's sensless garbage, but i was still entertained. Ja Rule and Korrupt werent oscar worthy or anything, but still added a little something like humor, and that thug vybe, especially for ja rule and korrupt fans, who only went to see the movie because they were in it. So, 3 stars for their effort towards the action and martial arts parts, and the fact that it still managed to entertain you especially after spending the doe.