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50
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue
A shoot-'em-up for cynical times. Its only asset is Seagal himself, and frankly, he's is getting a bit past it.
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38
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USA Today Mike Clark
Steven Seagal's acting style is so minimal that we can almost believe a script that tells us that his character's near-death experience left him flatlined for 22 minutes.
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38
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: ''Totally Past His Prime.''
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38
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The martial arts are well represented, the gentler arts -- like, for example, acting -- are not.
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25
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Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
When Seagal's undercover FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch waddles into the big house wearing a do-rag and a billowing blue jumpsuit, it's the funniest jailhouse-flick scene since Gene Wilder's white-boy strut in ''Stir Crazy.''
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
About as weak a movie as can be made without actively trying.
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20
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
After several scenes of this tacky nonsense, you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of Jerry Bruckheimer productions, especially because Half Past Dead is like "The Rock" on a Wal-Mart budget. And the marked-down price tags are incredibly visible.
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20
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Absent one original moment and bathed in de rigueur steel blue punctuated by sporadic bursts of flaming orange, the movie is notable only for its creative approach to Seagal's bulky gracelessness: Not since "Apocalypse Now" has a film gone to such lengths to hide what its star looks like.
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20
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets.
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12
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It goes through the motions of an action thriller, but there is a deadness at its center, a feeling that no one connected with it loved what they were doing.
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