Chestnut is an appealing and charismatic actor, but he’s just not enough to overcome the many obstacles Half Past Dead faces. With Half Past Dead, even though Morris Chestnut is the true star, we’re seeing way, way, way too much of Seagal and that is an absolute detriment to creating any kind of appeal. In the case of that film, it was all about DMX and a thumping soundtrack.
With Exit Wounds, the poorly-aging martial arts artist was a rather insignificant portion of the marketing push. If not for the presence of Morris Chestnut, this film would likely have headed straight to the video shelves, as it almost seems as though the studio is releasing it solely to fulfill a two-movie contract with Seagal. In theaters, audiences snicker at the trailer with wild abandon.
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It’s pretty clearly a movie that has no idea what it wants to be and is therefore trying to look as much like previous Steven Seagal crossover success Exit Wounds as it possibly can. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his 200 million stash of gold. This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. If you’ve seen any of the advertising for Half Past Dead, you know it’s dismal. AKA: Lockdown, The Rock, Halbtot - Half Past Dead. Half-Past Dead promises to have killer action sequences as several of the characters attempt to outwit one another in order to secure the lost treasure and escape incarceration, and looks to be a potential sleeper hit for the season. All of the scenes behind bars were filmed in an old Stasi prison in Berlin in order to enhance their realism. Half-Past Dead has the pitch of Die Hard in a prison, but for Seagal fans, it's probably more accurate to describe this as Under Siege III: The Oz Edition. Seagal plays an undercover FBI agent who becomes the fly-in-the-ointment of their would-be robbery. The plot has Chestnut portraying a criminal planning to infiltrate a prison in order to learn the whereabouts of $200 million in gold. Half Past Dead is a 2002 American action film written and directed by Don Michael Paul in his directorial debut, and produced by Steven Seagal, who also starred in the lead role.
The charming star of Two Can Play That Game, Morris Chestnut, is the actual lead in the film. Synopsis A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife.
He will be joined by Ja Rule and Kurrupt in this particular outing in addition to singer Nia Peeples (you remember her from The Party Machine with Nia Peeples, right?). This action film would appear to be trying to follow the success of Seagal's earlier Exit Wounds with the teaming of Seagal and current rap stars.
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