HALO NIGHTFALL FULL MOVIE SERIES

A couple of shots are memorably framed, especially towards the end, but the location where most of the action takes place (it was filmed in Iceland) is very bland and grey - it fits the concept, but it's not very inspiring.

There's some solid camera work and the special effects aren't awful but there's nothing groundbreaking going on. There's a couple of interesting elements that feed into ideas plucked from the Halo universe, and even ideas that are bent to fit around the narrative don't feel horribly out of place, but even the good bits have the life sucked out of them by the predictability of the story. There are still some watchable set pieces in there, but nothing that'll stir much in the way of emotion from the audience. Thus the team sent to investigate it can only visit when it's basking in darkness. The day cycle is very short, and when exposed to the sunlight its proximity to the star means it's a deathtrap. Sadly neither Aiken's back story nor the politics surrounding the initial attack are explored in any real depth, instead the action takes us off to a new location.ĭespite being only a solitary section of the ring, the Halo shard is still huge, and it's parked outside a giant star. Here we meet Aiken (Steven Waddington), a soldier with a mysterious past, who goes on to play an important role in later events. It's during these first scenes that we're most intrigued. Locke and his ONI (that's the Office of Naval Intelligence) squad are at the vanguard of the action when the weapon is first unleashed, and thus it's up to them and a complementary force of local soldiers to head out into deep space to the section of Halo ring identified as the source of the weapon. We'll not delve into the plot points too much for fear of spoilers, but the main thrust of it is that there's an attack on a human colony, and the deadly weapon at the centre of it originates from a piece of the Halo ring destroyed by Master Chief. Halo: Nightfall is set during the fractious peacetime between Humanity and the Covenant.

HALO NIGHTFALL FULL MOVIE SERIES

He's the star of the show in this web series turned live-action feature, and for collectors it's now available on Blu-ray DVD. One of the key characters that we'll see more of in Halo 5: Guardians is Jameson Locke, an ONI agent who's becoming increasingly embroiled in the Halo narrative.

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