The film has little dialogue and much action.
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I would rather see a movie about a pudgy karate fighter than a movie about a guy you never get a good look at. I object to the fact that he thinks he can conceal it from us with knee-length coats and tricky camera angles. I do not object to the fact that he's put on weight. (I know, he takes seven bullets for his partner Nick, but I don't think he planned it: "I'll take seven bullets for Nick!") Seagal's great contribution to the movie is to look very serious, even menacing, in closeups carefully framed to hide his double chin. A room is filled with teargas, but what exactly happens then? The movie takes the form of a buddy movie, but is stopped in its tracks because its hero, played by Steven Seagal, doesn't have a buddy gene in his body. The action is preposterous, too: Various characters leap from high places while firing guns, and the movie doesn't think to show us how, or if, they landed. The plot is preposterous, but that's acceptable with a thriller. There are moments, to be sure, when Ja Rule and Morris Chestnut seem to hear the music, but they're dancing by themselves. 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. It does its job and stops, and nobody cares. "Half Past Dead" is like an alarm that goes off while nobody is in the room.
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