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Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Andrew Mobley To be honest I never had high hopes for this mini series. It felt like a cheap marketing trick before I even saw it. Of course I thought to myself "They spent 10 million smackers making it, how bad could they screw it up?"Pretty badInstead of analyzing it to death, I'll list the disappointments:-There is little or no character depth-There is not enough character development of Locke, who I might add is the whole point of the mini series-The whole series has a bit of a cheap feel to it, from the environments to the guns-The plot is not emotionally engaging and goes nowhere-God help us, the clichés

s3276169 It should be difficult to make sci fi dull but as we see, all too often, the so called movie mavens manage it, time and again. Lamentably Halo: Nightfall is yet another example of uninspiring storytelling that taps into a well established computer game franchise. This is not the first film based on the Halo games. To my knowledge Halo: Forward Unto Dawn was the first full film outing. It was a reasonable effort too. Sadly Nightfall is nowhere near as entertaining. It takes a hackneyed and well worn general premise that was never exciting to start with and for some, inexplicable reason, reinvents it. The result is a film that ticks all the boxes in terms of special effects, props, equipment, settings and a reasonable cast yet still manages to be slow paced and boring. My advice give this one a miss. In spite of the enticing subject matter there is little on offer here. If you have not seen the first film watch that instead and then skip forward to the new film coming out this year (assuming its not a lemon too, of course). Four out of ten from me.

brandorres **NO MAJOR SPOILERS** .HALO NIGHTFALL .Directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan .Technically it's a TV series, but the 5 episodes in total are 93 minutes....and that's basically the length of a movie. .I wasn't too much a fan of the last Halo film, Forward unto Dawn....when Master Chief got there...it was awesome, but up til' that last 20 minutes....ehh. But I am a Halo fan. I own and have beaten all the games, except ODST...wasn't a fan. Halo Reach is definitely my favorite. Anyways i've been looking forward to a new Halo film so i was very excited to check out Nightfall.So Nightfall is about a group of ONI troopers led by Locke, going to this ancient abandoned world to solve the mystery of a terrorist attack. Things go wrong, the team gets marooned and they have to survive from the native species.....so, Halo Nightfall was disappointing. It wasn't bad, it had a lot of potential. It was going good for the first 20 minutes, but once they landed on Sedra......though that world looked amazing....it had problems. The characters were predictable, with your rookie girl who ends up being more than people thought of her. Your character who is an asshole just for the sake of having an antagonist within the group. Two people who were mortal enemies but end up sacrificing themself to save the other. It was just nothing new. Then, the whole reason they were there in the first place, to investigate this terrorists attack, yeah they never get around to doing so....so the entire beginning and attack on Earth isn't answered. It is only season 1 so maybe they'll answer that later on. My main problem with this movie, is the villain. When I think of a Halo movie, I want a film that's at least SOMETHING like the game. y'know some good ol' Spartan vs Covenant action. I just wanna see someone go up against the Covenant, the Elites, the Grunts, the Brutes, give me that please. When I found out they're enemy wasn't the Covenant but.....WORMS....I was upset. They're trying to survive from swarms of obvious CGI worms attracted to electricity. The ending, I called 20 minutes in. I didn't care for the characters, and the enemy was just....WORMS. I did enjoy aspects and visually it was cool. There was one really tense scene but overall it was a letdown..Halo Nightfall gets a: C- .Follow me on Instagram @KillFillm for more Movie Reviews!

kevinxirau Halo. Ever since it came out, it has engaged audiences around the world with not only its addictive gameplay, but also with its exciting story, lovable characters, and expansive universe. Attempts at a big screen live-action movie have been tried but are so far halted and rightfully so given that film adaptations of games generally have a poor track record. In the mean time, we've had a few small screen films/series to keep us entertained. "Halo Legends" was a superb film composed of different action-packed anime-styled shorts that expanded on the lore of Halo. "Forward Unto Dawn" had a laid-back tone that might bore some people were it not for both decent character development, nicely-done effects, and some really great action in the last quarter. Then along comes "Nightfall", which had potential considering Ridley Scott's role in making it, but BOY did it become the first official dud on the cinematic part of the franchise. Why? Well, you'll see since the spoiler warning is warranted.Plot: On the planet of Sedra, an Elite terrorist sets off a device that kills several civilians. The device is powered by a newly discovered element, which Agent Locke and his team have traced back to one of the remains of the first Halo ring, now orbiting dangerously close to a sun. With some assistance from a few local Sedrans, including former SPARTAN Aiken, the team lands on the Halo fragment to destroy the deposit of the new element. However, things quickly go wrong when swarms of Lekgolo/Hunter worms attack and damage their ship, attracted by the energy signature of their equipment. With only hours left before the deadly heat of the sun comes up and the Hunter swarms closing in on them, the members of the Locke's group will be forced to make some difficult choices.This web series had potential. The initial set-up is intriguing and the effects and social commentary are pretty good. I especially love how menacing the Hunter worms were. Having played the games, I've seen first-hand how tough the Hunters can be but to see them swarm like this and even going as far as to try and trick the soldiers by appearing as one of them in the distance was a genuine surprise and made them scary. We also get the pleasure of seeing a member of an all-new alien race called Yonhets, humanoids with gill-like structures on their heads. Agent Locke, a playable character in Halo 5, is introduced in this series and we see who he was before his hunt for Master Chief. These are the only few positives I have found in this otherwise piece of crap.After the first two fifths of this show, it all goes downhill from here. Most of the characters are just boring, even the ones the audience is supposed to care for. They express very little emotion beyond brooding, desperation, and later insanity, which I get given the grim situation but they were pretty much like this even before the freakin' mission. It was blatantly obvious would was gonna betray one another, who gets to die, and who gets to live. I especially hate this one guy named Michael Horrigan, who was a complete arrogant @$$hole right from the start, caring little about anyone and stabbing everyone in the back. He becomes so infuriating that I'm glad he becomes Hunter chow. Locke and Aiken are the most tolerable characters and yet, despite being introduced to them, we still know little about them (ex. why did Aiken quit the SPARTAN program?). "Forward Unto Dawn" at least showed where Lasky came from and developed his character.Despite the initial swagger of effects and a chase scene on Sedra, most of that is traded for dull landscapes and green screen effects once the mission on the Halo fragment starts. Ridley Scott usually knows how to bring a sense of isolation while still enthralling us with the look of his desert-canyon environments in films like "Alien" and "Prometheus", but here the environments did little to impress. For a franchise that markets itself primarily on action, very little action actually happens in this series. Barely a few shots were fired at the Hunter worms, even at the climax where the crazy people naturally should be fighting them. "Forward Unto Dawn" had a much lower budget and yet it still delivered some great action scenes, but "Nightfall" was so much more interested in being a survival story that it might as well not be connected to Halo. There's not even a climactic fight scene between Locke/Aiken and Michael, clichéd as it would been, but it would still show some action going on in this bore-fest. $10,000,000 and this is what we get? Forget this! Also, the soundtrack is completely forgettable.Where did Ridley Scott go wrong? Not doing the Halo franchise any justice, that's what. A good start to the story, creepy aliens, and some nice designs were hampered by wasted effects, dull characters, predictable plot points, no memorable music, and overall boring tone. Even non-fans will find this piece of crap a bad series overall. Don't give "Nightfall" a second thought and just pass up on this. You will be spared 90 minutes of your life.