![]() ![]() Break Them by Talking: The Leader of the terrorists does this to Supreme Court Justice June McPherson, whom they're holding hostage.Big Bad: 49er One is the one leading the terrorists to take over Alcatraz.Badass Boast: El Fuego, describing his history working in the prison system, where he had been spit on, stabbed, shot, and burned, but had always survived and persevered.Since he is already on Death Row, he simply waits. Subverted in that he's not doing anything in particular to make up for it, since he isn't sure if anything in his power would make up for what he did. He has become deeply religious and mournful for the deaths he caused. The Alcatraz: According to the director's commentary the screenplay for this film was actually written several years before The Rock's screenplay was conceived, and the original title of this film's screenplay was in fact The Rock, talk about Irony!.It is also the only Seagal film with a PG-13 rating. This film itself got an In Name Only direct to DVD sequel in 2007, sans Seagal, titled simply Half Past Dead 2 (which stars one of the supporting characters, so it's more like a spin-off). Now Sascha, Nick, and the other inmates are forced to battle the terrorists to regain control of the prison. They want McKenna to tell them where the gold is. But then a group of terrorists called the "49ers", led by Donald Johnson (Morris Chestnut), invades the island and takes control of it. With the location of the gold still unknown, he is scheduled to be executed that night. Lester McKenna ( Bruce Weitz) is a prisoner who stole $200,000,000 worth of gold and stashed it someplace, killing five people in the process. Alas, he and Nick get busted, and Sascha has a near-death experience (hence the film's title). Sascha Petrosevitch (Seagal) is a car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier (Ja Rule) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall (Richard Bremmer). It's 20 Minutes into the Future, and Alcatraz prison has been reopened due to rising crime rates. Only for Seagal completists.A 2002 American action movie written and directed by Don Michael Paul and starring Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, and Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins. See "Hard to Kill" or "Under Siege" if you like some Seagal action. I found it a bit of a challenge to finish. Of the Seagal films I've seen, this was by far the least enjoyable. I appreciate what Seagal was trying to do by promoting the native people and their culture, but it was boring and took away heavily from the flow of the film. I also think the emphasis on the Eskimo spirits was too intense. Unfortunately, as good as they all are (especially McGinley, as the feminine assassin) they are stuck in a poorly written film with re-hashed plot and action sequences that are old and revolve around characters who yell "ow, my balls" a lot. Joan Chen ("Twin Peaks"), Michael Caine, John C. The only new thing here is his directing and increased monologues. So if you're looking for something new from Seagal, you're looking in the wrong place. ![]() ![]() The formula here is the same as "Hard to Kill" - Seagal finds a powerful man doing evil, is left for dead, healed by some spiritual stuff and returns to fight with a new love interest. But after being revived by a tribe of Eskimos (including Joan Chen, who is actually Chinese) he returns to fight the oil company and give long speeches about the environment. After stumbling upon a sinister plot from his boss (played by an angry Michael Caine), he is marked for death by his employer and nearly killed. Steven Seagal is now an employee of Aegis Oil where he is some sort of hired muscle and a former member of the CIA (his exact job seems unclear).
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