Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Oh man this one has some of the funniest Seagal moments I have seen yet. Ja Rule is the main supporting actor, and at one point early on, him and Steven are driving around in a railyard industrial park or something like that, when for no real good reason, Seagal starts doing donuts and saying, "I'm a bad man!" Ja Rule wants him to stop the car, so what does he do? Steven slams on the brakes and somehow throws the passenger door open sending Ja Rule 30 feet soaring through the air going WHOOAAAA. He looks like a torpedo crash test dummy and slams into the windshield of a car and falls to the ground. Then he just gets up and says he ought to keep his ass. Then they just laugh and go back to normal like he didn't just throw him 30 feet through the air out of a car! I mean WTF?! I think I watched that at least 3 times before moving on to the rest of the movie. I could barely breathe from laughing so hard. This film marks one of the earliest films where you get to see black Seagal, too. Ja Rule tries to teach him to talk like a brother and that must be how Seagal gets so good at it for his future films, like Force of Execution. Of course, Steven is working for the FBI like he always pretty much is, but he'll have to do it undercover in one of his other favorite settings: PRISON. Morris Chesnut is phenomenal. His performance doesn't even belong in a Seagal movie because it really is that good. Ja Rule is just this major wussy the whole time that always is getting his ass kicked. I mean everyone including females kick his ass, just watch, it is great. Besides Steven and Ja Rule, some of the prisoners say some pretty stupid stuff, so you are in for some laughs in this movie. There is a lot of gunplay and some good fight scenes, in here. Bottom line, you will see good fights, black Steven, gunplay, and unintentionally hilarious Seagalisms. Great one to watch.

Half Past Dead, must also refer to Seagal's martial arts skills that are on vacation in this pitiful movie. Bruce Weitz's acting performance is as close as you will get to anything of value. As Stephen King said, "It's all about the story." There is no story, just gun violence, with special effects, backed by hideous crack-head music. Seagal surely will disappoint his fans with this one. If you are looking for another Under Siege 1, or On Deadly Ground, don't waste your time. Money spent for the poorly done effects should have been paid to the script writer. There is no message, no redeeming value, just noise. Not even worth reviewing. 2 Stars just to leave room for something worse.

So there's Steven Seagal, and there's a bunch of people that want to kill him because well, just because. There have been so many movies with that exact premise I wonder why I still bother to watch them. I guess it's just that the pure, innocent simplicity to a Seagal movie is very endearing to me. With that said, this movie still kinda blows. I'm okay with the dumb plot about criminals trying to locate 200 million dollars worth of gold (which apparently is just around twenty bars), but I expected some more real action from our main character. All Seagal does is slap some people, and even that is usually done by an obvious double. His acting is also even worse than usual (is that possible?) and his co-stars don't exactly carry the movie either. Maybe because most of them aren't even real actors. Whose idea was it to put Seagal and Ja Rule in an emotional climax? Whoever it was, he's cleaning up aisle three right now. Occasionally there's a good gunfight thrown in the mix, so the movie's not boring all the way through, but it is in fact pretty disappointing.

Sometime in the near future that island in San Francisco Bay is being used for what God intended, a federal prison once again. But now it's a high tech new and improved Alcatraz with Tony Plana as the warden. It's still an unbreakable no escape facility, but no one ever counts on someone breaking into prison.Which is what Morris Chestnut, Nia Peeples and an assorted gang of body armored thugs do when hijacker Bruce Weitz is about to be executed. It seems that Weitz who has cleaned up quite a bit since he portrayed Detective Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues, has gone and buried a small fortune in gold bullion which he robbed back in the day resulting in several Treasury agents being killed. Which is why Weitz is on death row.But Chestnut's helicopter which is his escape route crashes in a blinding rainstorm, we get a hostage situation which also involves a Supreme Court Justice in the person of Linda Thorson. Back before she got to the high court, Thorson was the judge who tried and sentenced Weitz and she's there as a witness to the execution that gets delayed.Fortunately for all concerned Steven Segall is in the joint with his criminal buddy Ja Rule and he organizes the cons to resist.People who go to see Steven Segall movies go for the action and violence and not a coherent and realistic plot. The action is plenty as Segall goes through the film in a style that makes Sylvester Stallone look like John Barrymore.If that's what your taste in film is, go for it.