![]() No worries, though, right? Between the familiar gear, fan-favorite weapons, and the team's post-Sedra destination (a secret I won't spoil here), there's plenty of Halo goodness to go around. (For that matter, why does the Elite need to sneak into the city to detonate a device whose blast radius extends well beyond the boundaries of the entire city? Plot hole #1, and it doesn't stop there.) Add to that the lack of any armored Spartans, Warthogs or Scorpions, and it isn't hard to spot the film's first problem. First, the featured Elite goes down easier than the first Elite encountered in Halo: Combat Evolved (with the game set to Easy mode), and no other Covenant make an appearance. As they unravel a plot that draws them to an ancient, hellish artifact, they're forced to fight for their survival, question their comrades' loyalty, and ultimately choose between their honor and their lives.Īfter an initial, very Halo-esque introduction to Sedra and a shady Covenant Elite who's without a doubt, most definitely, with the utmost certainty up to no good, Nightfall slowly devolves into a very un- Halo like survival story that, for one reason or another, systematically eliminates elements of the Halo universe with growing indifference. Led by Locke, ONI agents are left with little choice but to coordinate with Randall Aiken (Steven Waddington), a local commander with a remarkable history and deep-rooted mistrust of ONI. Investigating terrorist chatter on the distant colony world of Sedra, he and his team are soon caught in a horrific biological attack. 'Nightfall' tells the personal story of Jameson Locke (Mike Colter), a legendary manhunter and agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Earth's most powerful and secretive military branch. As direct-to-video sci-fi goes, you could certainly do worse. It not only squanders a precious opportunity, it fails to accomplish anything more than delivering a decent, frustratingly disconnected side story. Unfortunately, Nightfall isn't going to convince anyone that Halo belongs on the big screen. A successful live-action series could feasibly persuade Hollywood to invest in a proper Halo feature film. The goal? To expand the Haloverse in interesting new directions, establish characters we'll meet in Halo 5: Guardians this fall, and provide a proof of concept for bigger, better things. Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, March 13, 2015Įxecutive producer Ridley Scott and director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan's Halo: Nightfall follows Forward Unto Dawn as another ambitious foray into the world of Master Chief, the UNSC and the deadly Covenant. ![]()
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