Caption

Half Past Dead

HDD

Year:

2002

Director:

Don Michael Paul

Country:

Germany USA

Seen:

Length:

1 hr(s) 39 min (99 min)

Language:

english

Mediatype:

DVD

Owner:

Magical

Rating:

 (4.0)

Genres:

Action
Crime
Thriller

Plot:

Sascha Petrosevitch is a car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall, who apparently shot and killed Sascha's wife. When FBI Special Agent Ellen "E. Z." Williams and her team show up to nail Nick, things go bad, and Sascha gets shot. After eight months of recovery following his brief bout of being clinically dead from the shooting, Sascha is incarcerated along with Nick in the newly reopened Alcatraz prison. Run by the charismatic warden, Juan Ruiz "El Fuego" Escarzaga, the place is known for its new state-of-the-art death chamber where the condemned can choose from five different ways to die -- lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, or electric chair. Lester McKenna is the first prisoner scheduled to be executed. An older man, Lester stole $200,000,000 worth of gold bricks in a heist that resulted in five deaths. Federal Bureau of Prisons head Frank Hubbard and Supreme Court Justice June McPherson have arrived to watch the execution, which is a result of June sentencing Lester. But she's not the only one interested in Lester. A small but well-equipped team of terrorists -- the "49ers" -- have parachuted onto the island and gained control of it. Led by 49er One AKA Donny Johnson, Hubbard's assistant, the team finds Lester, and wants him to give up the location of his hidden stash of gold. When Lester won't tell them, Donny shoots a nearby priest and threatens to kill others if the info isn't delivered. His plan is disrupted when Sascha decides to step in and fight back. It turns out that Sascha is an undercover FBI agent who's been trying to use Nick to get to Sonny Eckvall. When Sascha rescues Lester, the 49ers strap June to the electric chair and threaten to kill her, while on the mainland, Ellen and her team plan an attack on the 49ers. With the help of Nick and other inmates such as Twitch and Little Joe, Sascha sets out to rescue June and bring Donny down, before Alcatraz becomes everyone's final resting place.

Cast:

Steven Seagal
Sasha Petrosevitch
Morris Chestnut
49er One / Donald Robert Johnson
Ja Rule
Nicolas 'Nick' Frazier
Nia Peeples
49er Six
Tony Plana
Warden El Fuego
Kurupt
Twitch
Michael Taliferro
Little Joe (as Michael 'Bear' Taliferro)
Claudia Christian
Special Agent Ellen Williams
Linda Thorson
Judge Jane McPherson
Bruce Weitz
Lester McKenna
Michael McGrady
Guard Damon J. Kestner
Richard Bremmer
Sonny Eckvall
Hannes Jaenicke
Agent Hartmann
Matt Battaglia
49er Three
Wiliam T. Bowers
Alcatraz Guard
Stephen J. Cannell
Frank Hubbard
Ross King
FBI Agent
Yasmina Filali
Sophia (as Yasmina Filall)
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld
Reporter (as Alexandra Kamp)
Jed Sutton
Air 49er
Kelly Lange
Herself
Mo'Nique
Twitch's Girl
Eva-Maria Schönecker
Priest
Alister Mazzotti
49er Seven
Michael Bornhütter
49er Eight
Rainer Werner
49er Nine
Ralf Häger
49er Ten (as Ralf Haeger)
Art Camacho
49er Eleven
Wolfgang Lindner
49er Twelve
Volkhart Buff
Hooded Figure
Mike Möller
Inmate #1
Christian Gneisel
Inmate #2
Lutz Vogel
Inmate #3
Stefan Langel
Gunner
Ralph Günthler
Gunner (as Ralph Guthler)
Jogi Blumenthal
Entrance Guard
Thorsten Gliewe
Entrance Guard
Micha Bornhütter
Entrance Guard
Marc Logan-Black
Control Center Guard (as Mark Logan-Black)
Mike Brun
Tower Guard
Georg Ebinal
Tower Guard / Truck Driver
Wanja Götz
Nick's Crew
Norman Ernst
Nick's Crew
Asuka Tovazzi
FBI Chop Shop
Jason Oettle
FBI Chop Shop
René Bellmann
Forklift Driver
Eddie Geber
Inmate
Sascha Magerl
Inmate
Chi Man Wong
Chinese Tier Guard
Joe Cook
Officer William T. Bowers (uncredited)
Kris Deskins
Lawyer (uncredited)
Don Michael Paul
SWAT Captain (uncredited)