I can’t say he acted much before this except for one small scene in The Wash, but that was it.Īs for action scenes, this movie was chock full of explosions and pyrotechnics that I think it would make Michael Bay blush. He was actually pretty funny in some scenes, one of which included comedienne, Mo’Nique. She even wore a trenchcoat in some fight scenes.Īs for others, Kurupt basically played the comic relief in this film. Also she reminded me too much of Trinity from The Matrix in this. Nia Peeples didn’t have much to work with except be the femme fatale who wore tight leather and did martial arts.
He didn’t really convince as a bad guy in this film and he is usually such a good actor. I felt that he was more convincing as a criminal-type in the movie Confidence, which came out sometime after this one. As for Morris Chestnut, his performance as the villain felt like he went through the motions. He was only in The Fast and The Furious for a few minutes and the only other film that I have seen with him was The Cookout, but that was a long time ago and I mostly remember that being a cheesy comedy. I know he was in a movie with Pras (From The Fugees) called Turn It Up, but I have never seen it. Ja didn’t do a bad job in his role but I have not seen enough roles of his to really say if he is playing himself. I can’t really say much about Seagal’s acting considering how he has admitted that he is not much of an actor and how in a lot of movies he basically plays the same type of character, or is he playing himself? I can never tell. The thing that really got me were the acting from parts of the cast. Would I call it good? No, but there was some fun to be had. In regards to whether this film was bad is entirely subjective, but I personally didn’t mind it. In some ways this feels like The Rock, with Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, but with elements from The Matrix thrown in. My only guess is because the film took place on Alcatraz and being that they are after gold, it is rather clear as to why they are named that. For example, the second-in-command, played by Nia Peeples, is named 49er Six. The villain, who is called 49er One (don’t ask), played by Morris Chestnut, leads a team of criminals, also codenamed 49ers with a number after that. The opening sequence was more of a prologue as Sasha was shot and the main plot takes place eight months after those events. Of course, Ja’s character did not know that he was undercover at first. Seagal played Sasha, the FBI agent who was undercover in a criminal operation with his friend, Nicholas, played Ja Rule. The film’s title has to do with how Seagal’s character was declared dead at the beginning of the film, only to be revived. The film’s story in a nutshell is about this undercover FBI who is infiltrating a prison because a criminal plotted to interrogate a prisoner about stolen gold and where to find it. Some of my synopsis may contain spoilers.
Of course, I decided to see it for myself. A lot of people disliked the film and it did not make a lot of money. I think another reason was that this film was a critical and box office flop. For many years I had heard that this film was the last straw for Steven Seagal as a leading man in theatrical movies because afterwards he had starred in a slew of direct-to-video films. This movie came out nearly two years after Exit Wounds, which was a surprise hit and that was also another movie that Seagal had done with a rapper, who was DMX. I still have Exit Wounds to do, and I will cover that one in the near future along with its soundtrack, but that will be for my Andrzej Bartowiak’s martial arts hip-hop trilogy marathon which also consists of Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 The Grave, along with the soundtracks to those films.Īnyway, I am here to talk about Half Past Dead, the last movie that Steven Seagal starred in that was given a theatrical release, which also has Ja Rule in a starring role. I will add that I have also been on a Steven Seagal kick lately, probably thanks to a YouTuber who I follow named Ramboraph4life as not too long ago he had done a Seagal marathon where he reviewed and ranted on films that he starred in. It is not just because Ja Rule is in this film, and also Kurupt, but also because there is a good amount of songs from The Inc on the soundtrack, and also other stuff from non-Murder Inc performers.
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