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Idaho Aikido
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I think this is by far the worst steven seagal film yet, he has so much potential, by lets ideas from people who have no room giving advice control his ability to be himself on film.
Just let steven seagal do what he does best--AIKIDO
When you start adding wirework and cutwork to your fight scenes then you have ruined the beauty of his style.
Aikido is something that needs the camera rolling, when you start cutting it up, it looks fake and very unrealistic.
Just my personal opinion !
Take Care-
Just let steven seagal do what he does best--AIKIDO
When you start adding wirework and cutwork to your fight scenes then you have ruined the beauty of his style.
Aikido is something that needs the camera rolling, when you start cutting it up, it looks fake and very unrealistic.
Just my personal opinion !
Take Care-
I know absolutely NOTHING about Julius Nasso, but I DO KNOW on a lot of great Seagal flicks, the credits read--Produced by Steven Seagal & Julius Nasso. Maybe Steve needs someone like that again--like Lennon/McCartney or Elvis & Colonel Tom Parker?????????????
One thing's for sure--the best actor in the wrong director's hands can look terrible, and conversely, I've seen a lousy actor look great because the folks behind the camera HANDLED THINGS RIGHT. Good point, Monsieur Idaho!!
One thing's for sure--the best actor in the wrong director's hands can look terrible, and conversely, I've seen a lousy actor look great because the folks behind the camera HANDLED THINGS RIGHT. Good point, Monsieur Idaho!!
I watched Half Past Dead again from the pirate VCD! not a clear but not bad.
This movie is really GOOD!!!Seagal is GOOD!! He is gorgeous with the prisoner suit and he is playing wonderful!! This is a movie, not aikido seminar !! He is not only Aikido teacher he is action star as well !! Don't forget this Sensei Glenn! Everybody know that Steven Seagal is a 7th dan Master of Aikido !! What he will prove ??? He is playing in the movie and he mixed all of them, good action, movie and his aikido !! Where is the bad???
I will never understand critics and saying bad movie and bad Seagal!! I refused all of the bad critics! He is still the BEST !!!!!!
sincerely
This movie is really GOOD!!!Seagal is GOOD!! He is gorgeous with the prisoner suit and he is playing wonderful!! This is a movie, not aikido seminar !! He is not only Aikido teacher he is action star as well !! Don't forget this Sensei Glenn! Everybody know that Steven Seagal is a 7th dan Master of Aikido !! What he will prove ??? He is playing in the movie and he mixed all of them, good action, movie and his aikido !! Where is the bad???
I will never understand critics and saying bad movie and bad Seagal!! I refused all of the bad critics! He is still the BEST !!!!!!
sincerely
LIETUS
gerietė
I sow this movie and now i can say what i agree with you METROdee.
HALF PAST DEAD quet good movie but really i couldn't say-It's great movie.
Ja Rule was interesting
Bed girl was good-something from matric,i gess.
I think i would like Alkatraz if i would be bad -in movie alkatraz walls was from paper,that's for shure.
Ja,i would say-it's just one more movie.
Good,Easy
Here's a decent review of Half Past Dead taken from www.zwire.com
* Half Past Dead (Columbia TriStar video and DVD, PG-13, 98 min.) I'm not a big fan of Steven Seagal, but this has to be the most entertaining film I've seen him in. Call it "Die Hard in Alcatraz," but at least the action is plentiful and the actors appealing, especially rapper Ja Rule as Seagal's sidekick Nicholas Frazier. The film opens with Seagal's FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch (we're not actually told until 47 minutes in that he is FBI, but it's pretty obvious from the trailer and box copy that he is) trying to get a job as a car thief for Sonny Ekvall, an East European crime syndicate head. Frazier is Ekvall's assistant. After stealing a car and driving crazily, a shootout erupts when FBI Special Agent Ellen Williams (Claudia Christian of TV's "Babylon 5") tries to arrest them. The film then cuts to eight months later at the newly reopened Alcatraz island prison (Alcatraz was closed in 1962) in San Francisco Bay. Frazier and Petrosevitch are both being processed as inmates. Because Petrosevitch was shot and his heart actually stopped beating during the raid, convicted killer Lester McKenna (Bruce Weitz) asks for Petrosevitch to be his companion in his last hour before execution. McKenna has mellowed in prison and found religion, but he still will not reveal the whereabouts of his $200 million in gold "blood money." One guest at the execution is Jane McPherson (Linda Thorson), now a Supreme Court justice, but also the judge who originally sentenced McKenna. Unexpected guests are a group of parachuting commandos, led by actors Morris Chestnut and Nia Peeples; but they only want to free McKenna to learn where the gold is hidden. Tony Plena plays Latino warden "El Fuego" and rapper Kurupt plays prisoner Twitch. Some of the film's stunts at the beginning and ending seem there only because they are stunts, but the stuff in the prison itself hangs together well. Writer/director Don Michael Paul also includes a very funny deleted scene, during the closing credits, of Twitch's jailhouse conversation with his "large" girlfriend, played by Monique.
The DVD includes audio commentary by the director; a 13 1/4-minute making-of feature; and three deleted scenes, the most important of which is a flashback to the death of Petrosevitch's wife. Rating: film 3 stars; extras 2 stars
* Half Past Dead (Columbia TriStar video and DVD, PG-13, 98 min.) I'm not a big fan of Steven Seagal, but this has to be the most entertaining film I've seen him in. Call it "Die Hard in Alcatraz," but at least the action is plentiful and the actors appealing, especially rapper Ja Rule as Seagal's sidekick Nicholas Frazier. The film opens with Seagal's FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch (we're not actually told until 47 minutes in that he is FBI, but it's pretty obvious from the trailer and box copy that he is) trying to get a job as a car thief for Sonny Ekvall, an East European crime syndicate head. Frazier is Ekvall's assistant. After stealing a car and driving crazily, a shootout erupts when FBI Special Agent Ellen Williams (Claudia Christian of TV's "Babylon 5") tries to arrest them. The film then cuts to eight months later at the newly reopened Alcatraz island prison (Alcatraz was closed in 1962) in San Francisco Bay. Frazier and Petrosevitch are both being processed as inmates. Because Petrosevitch was shot and his heart actually stopped beating during the raid, convicted killer Lester McKenna (Bruce Weitz) asks for Petrosevitch to be his companion in his last hour before execution. McKenna has mellowed in prison and found religion, but he still will not reveal the whereabouts of his $200 million in gold "blood money." One guest at the execution is Jane McPherson (Linda Thorson), now a Supreme Court justice, but also the judge who originally sentenced McKenna. Unexpected guests are a group of parachuting commandos, led by actors Morris Chestnut and Nia Peeples; but they only want to free McKenna to learn where the gold is hidden. Tony Plena plays Latino warden "El Fuego" and rapper Kurupt plays prisoner Twitch. Some of the film's stunts at the beginning and ending seem there only because they are stunts, but the stuff in the prison itself hangs together well. Writer/director Don Michael Paul also includes a very funny deleted scene, during the closing credits, of Twitch's jailhouse conversation with his "large" girlfriend, played by Monique.
The DVD includes audio commentary by the director; a 13 1/4-minute making-of feature; and three deleted scenes, the most important of which is a flashback to the death of Petrosevitch's wife. Rating: film 3 stars; extras 2 stars
Amos Stevens
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Thanks Craig
No problem. I had to post it most reviews by critics are usually pretty bad.
Craig
Craig
CharlesJones
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I can't believe the people on here who said Half Past Dead is good. That movie was horrible & i'm mad at myself for wasting money on that flick at the theatres. Ja Rule is a terrible actor & so is rapper Kurupt. Morris Chestnut isn't a convincing bad guy. He needs to stick to black romantic comedies LOL. Nia Peebles who was Morris's sidekick is a cutiepie. I used to like watching her on Walker Texas Ranger tv show.
Mason
Well-Known Member
LIETUS said:I sow this movie and now i can say what i agree with you METROdee.
HALF PAST DEAD quet good movie but really i couldn't say-It's great movie.
Ja Rule was interesting
Bed girl was good-something from matric,i gess.
I think i would like Alkatraz if i would be bad -in movie alkatraz walls was from paper,that's for shure.
Ja,i would say-it's just one more movie.
Good,Easy
I have to agree...the movie is good,but it needs (especialy) more fightscenes. Most of Seagal's recent films needs more fightscenes except belly og the beast!!!
Littledragon
Above The Law
Not A Bad Film.
The movie is just good. I think it is good because of the supporting characters, Ja Rule gives it some edge as well as the others. The plot was not that good but the movie was totally action packed, it had alot of action but the quality of the fight scenes were not the Seagal standard I expected it to be. I think this movie is good not great yet not bad either. The plot and acting could have been better, Art Camacho who coreographed the fight scenes, he coregrahped almost all of Don Wilson's fight scenes, Art's coreographs are very lame and boring I will admit.
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
The movie is just good. I think it is good because of the supporting characters, Ja Rule gives it some edge as well as the others. The plot was not that good but the movie was totally action packed, it had alot of action but the quality of the fight scenes were not the Seagal standard I expected it to be. I think this movie is good not great yet not bad either. The plot and acting could have been better, Art Camacho who coreographed the fight scenes, he coregrahped almost all of Don Wilson's fight scenes, Art's coreographs are very lame and boring I will admit.
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Webmaster FU&D!
Ardent Seagal Fan
FU&D! Original Review - Half Past Dead - 3/4 guns
Just when I had more or less given up on Seagal's new movies, along comes a surprisingly decent effort like Half Past Dead. To be sure, I love Seagal but with the ups and downs of his releases it is hard to remain a loyal fan, much less run a devoted website. In any case, this movie feels big and expensive, features some of the old Seagal magic and finally pulls Our Hero into the 21st century. Seagal plays Sasha Petrosevitch. an undercover FBI agent who goes to prison to get closer to his suspect. We get a nice little fight as soon as Seagal sets foot on New Alcatraz (a cool idea), but it almost seems to me like the suspect, played in an underkey way by Ja Rule, got more fight-time than Seagal!
For reasons I won't get into here (see my recap for that) a group of armed men take over the Rock (sound familiar?) and Seagal gets into it, like we know he would. The bad guys are high-tech, heavily armored, Matrix-inspired operators and it is a joy to see Seagal kicking their ass, even though he does need some help from Ja Rule.
There is a nice blend of fire fights and Seagal-style bone breaking. It is not a return to the Golden Era of Seagal films, but with a 50-something action hero, I think it is all we can expect. Three guns.
Please see my Steven Seagal website for screencaps and audio clips as well as a full-length, TWOP-style, 7-page recap.
Just when I had more or less given up on Seagal's new movies, along comes a surprisingly decent effort like Half Past Dead. To be sure, I love Seagal but with the ups and downs of his releases it is hard to remain a loyal fan, much less run a devoted website. In any case, this movie feels big and expensive, features some of the old Seagal magic and finally pulls Our Hero into the 21st century. Seagal plays Sasha Petrosevitch. an undercover FBI agent who goes to prison to get closer to his suspect. We get a nice little fight as soon as Seagal sets foot on New Alcatraz (a cool idea), but it almost seems to me like the suspect, played in an underkey way by Ja Rule, got more fight-time than Seagal!
For reasons I won't get into here (see my recap for that) a group of armed men take over the Rock (sound familiar?) and Seagal gets into it, like we know he would. The bad guys are high-tech, heavily armored, Matrix-inspired operators and it is a joy to see Seagal kicking their ass, even though he does need some help from Ja Rule.
There is a nice blend of fire fights and Seagal-style bone breaking. It is not a return to the Golden Era of Seagal films, but with a 50-something action hero, I think it is all we can expect. Three guns.
Please see my Steven Seagal website for screencaps and audio clips as well as a full-length, TWOP-style, 7-page recap.
ORANGATUANG
Wildfire
This was an good one he looked cool acting like an prisoner..only one thing i should have been the warden..ok no matter how big he is he is always going to be "The One".
and no one can say or do anything to change that......the only thing is they could have picked an better colour in prison clothes "orange" yuck!!!!
and no one can say or do anything to change that......the only thing is they could have picked an better colour in prison clothes "orange" yuck!!!!
Webmaster FU&D!
Ardent Seagal Fan
Anyone for a recap?
If anyone is interested in a blow-by-blow, Television Without Pity-style recap of Half Past Dead please surf to my Steven Seagal website.
I spent more time than I should putting together this thing, with Seagal in-jokes, movie references, screencaps, etc. You can find it under Films/Half Past Dead/Recap.
Be warned, you'll have to invest some of your time in reading it.
Alternatively, I could post it here, but I haven't figured out how to get images in-line with the text.
If anyone is interested in a blow-by-blow, Television Without Pity-style recap of Half Past Dead please surf to my Steven Seagal website.
I spent more time than I should putting together this thing, with Seagal in-jokes, movie references, screencaps, etc. You can find it under Films/Half Past Dead/Recap.
Be warned, you'll have to invest some of your time in reading it.
Alternatively, I could post it here, but I haven't figured out how to get images in-line with the text.