Half Past Dead 2

Half Past Dead 2 is a 2007 direct-to-DVD action film, starring former WCW/WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg and Kurupt. It is a sequel to the theatrically released Half Past Dead.

Plot
New Alcataz inmate Twitch Washington (Kurupt), who has learned that deceased gangster Lester McKenna had a second stash of gold from his heist hidden away, gets himself transferred to another prison, Creighton Penitentiary, so that he can more easily look for the gold when he gets out. Shortly, after he arrives at Creighton, however, a turf war between the black and Hispanic gangs breaks out into a full-blown prison riot, leaving Twitch needing to team up with fellow inmate William Burke (Bill Goldberg) to survive the riot and rescue Twitch's girlfriend and Burke's daughter, who have been trapped inside the prison.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Ditches the setting and all but two of the characters of the first Half Past Dead, meaning that it barely feels like it has any connection to the first film.
 * 2) Dull and unambitious storyline; whereas the first film was about a terrorist takeover of New Alcatraz, had the life of a supreme court justice at stake, and had battles between the terrorists and an FBI assault team, this film's just about a couple of guys who get caught up in a prison riot.
 * 3) The entire subplot of Twitch's and Burke's loved ones getting taken hostage is only allowed to happen firstly because the prison's conjugal visit rooms (i.e. where prisoners are allowed intimate visits from their partners) somehow aren't outfitted with locks, and secondly because they're too stupid to think about just barricading the door with the furniture in the room.
 * 4) Burke turns out to be an innocent man who was framed for a crime he didn't commit, thus robbing his backstory of anything that would make him an interesting character.
 * 5) The action scenes are repetitive and poorly choreographed.
 * 6) Terrible lighting throughout, often making it impossible to tell what's going on in the fight scenes.
 * 7) They resort to recycling big chunks of footage from the first film to pad this one out.
 * 8) The film indirectly makes insulting references to Mo'Nique, who had a cameo as Twitch's girlfriend in the first film; here it's revealed that Twitch actually had a different, more attractive girlfriend all along, who he was cheating on with Mo'Nique's character.
 * 9) Unsatisfying ending; Burke beats up the main villain without any more difficulty than the various other rioting prisoners he fought in the film, and then the rest is just a rehash of the first film's ending.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Decent performance from Bill Goldberg.
 * 2) Unlike the first film, which was heavily censored, this one is actually R-rated.