Half Past Dead / Half Past Dead 2
[DVD]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Action thriller double. Steven Seagal stars in 'Half Past Dead' (2002) as Sascha Petrosevitch, an FBI agent working undercover to infiltrate a gang of crooks. His undercover operation even stretches to being incarcerated in a jail known as 'the new Alcatraz' with one of the gang members, Nick Frazier (Ja Rule). But when a corrupt prison assistant, Donny (Morris Chestnut) storms the prison demanding that a soon-to-be-executed thief tell him the whereabouts of $200 million worth of gold, Sascha must convince his fellow inmates of his true identity and foil Donny's plan - and quickly. In 'Half Past Dead 2' (2007), Burk (Bill Goldberg) and Twitch (Kurupt) are two inmates serving time at Craton Prison, a notoriously tough and violent penitentiary ruled by rival gangs. When a riot breaks out and the prison goes into lockdown, the two are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stay alive. Together, they navigate the hostile gang territory under the watchful eye of unsympathetic prison guards, in order to learn the identity of the inmate responsible for the riot. Eventually Burk discovers that gang leader, Cortez (Robert Madrid), is behind the riot - and learns to his horror that he has taken two hostages: Twitch's fiancee and Burk's daughter... AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW Half Past Dead Despite critical roasting and a blink and you missed it theatrical release, Half Past Dead is surprisingly not half bad. Once you recognise the film's recent action flick heritage (The Rock being the most obvious of a dozen pilfered plot lines), you can kick back and enjoy the unexpected perks that arise when a deep-cover FBI sleuth (Steven Seagal) accompanies a convicted crook (rapper Ja Rule) into "New Alcatraz" prison. A death row killer (Bruce Weitz) sits on a $200 million goldmine, keeping his secret as a bargaining chip when criminal commandos (led by the ever cool Morris Chestnut) drop in for a lethally greedy raid. After cutting his teeth on trashy, short-lived TV series, director Don Michael Paul can't do much to help an ageing Seagal, but he's got lively allies in Ja Rule and Nia Peeples (forget Lara Croft, this girl rocks), and even legendary action-TV producer Stephen J. Cannell drops in for a cameo. Derivative from the word go, but fun just the same. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com Half Past Dead 2 Former WWE & WCW World Champion Bill Goldberg and hip hop group Tha Dog Pound's Ricardo 'Kurupt' Brown push life to the limit in this explosive sequel to the 2002 hit movie Half Past Dead. Burk (Goldberg) and Twitch (Kurupt), are two inmates serving time at Craton Prison, a notoriously tough and violent penitentiary ruled by rival gangs. When a riot breaks out and the prison goes into lockdown, the two must form an unlikely alliance to stay alive. Together, they navigate the hostile gang territory under the watchful eye of unsympathetic prison guards, in order to learn the identity of the inmate responsible for the riot. Eventually Burk discovers that gang leader, Cortez, is behind the riot and finds that he's taken two hostages: Cherise, Twitch's fiancee and Ellie, Burk's daughter. Twitch and Burk find they must work together in order to save their loved ones and bring Cortez down.

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