xsamir After Forward Unto Dawn I have so much hope for this series. When the series came out it was a sh***. I love scifi but this Halo series was unbearable to watch. Even Killjoys the series that I don't think much of it, is a class for it self compared to Nightfall. I'm ashamed to call this part of a Halo universe.

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!

drskytower-13161 I have not seen the earlier Halo episodes, but I have played the games so I know the basics of the Halo universe. This movie started off interesting, but my goodness, it sure tried my patience after half an hour. After an hour of sitting there my butt went numb with boredom.This had to be one of the worst sci-fi tele-movies I've ever sat through.1) You can easily outsmart a energy-sword wielding Elite just by jumping over him and shutting a flimsy door in his face. When you open the door he will be conveniently gone.2) If you jump on an 8-foot tall Dino-Toad in full battle armour and shoot a couple shots into his helmet with your pistol, he not only doesn't fight back he quickly falls to his knees in defeat and then throws himself over the hand rail to his death.3) This huge armoured alien can wander around in a human shopping mall unseen but in full view. He doesn't even bother to activate his active-camouflage, because well, humans are blind.4) Lekgolo worms will not attempt to make themselves into a Hunter form. They just swarm together in giant masses big enough and powerful enough to bring down Pelican drop-ships. 5) If however, you turn your ship off, the Lekgolo worms will completely ignore your ship. Oh, and use pack-horses to transport your smuggled whatever-the-hell you're smuggling. Also, wear peasant clothes, because the Lekgolo worms will still attack as they can detect you whether or not you're using your i-OxgyenMask, or your i-Phone, or your i-Pad... or your feet walking on a solid i-Surface... 6) Even though you're a trained soldier, trained by ONI or UNSC or whatever, make triple sure to kill those peasant civilian-smuggler types who are unarmed and have no way of fighting back against you.7) Spend the entire flick wandering around a boring quarry, trudging along the same paths. Just show em from different angles so the (hopefully) tiny-minded audience doesn't figure out this all looks the same.8) Spend 80% of a made-for-TV-movie based on a science fiction first-person-shooter video game sitting around talking. Because the demographic this flick is aimed at wants to watch people sitting and talking. Especially when the acting, story and special effects are sub-par.9) Wonder at the revelation that every Halo game you've ever played involved you running and gunning down alien covenant soldiers, space-zombies, huge ape-like alien warriors and flying super-advanced killer machines built by an extinct super-race. 10) After the hero and the token female survivor escape the deadliest red worms in the Universe in the stolen smuggler ship, grab the DVD disc and sigh with satisfaction as you snap the thing in half.This still goes to show that movies based on video games do NOT work! Boooo 343 Industries! I wasted my $$$ hiring this turd from Video Ezy!! 0 out of 10!

Nicolas Verhoeven I have to say, I have been praying for years to everything I can think of to get a Halo film or Halo series started and now we have one - and it is a massive disappointment with minor bright spots.The Plot - The story to this series is pretty weak. I mean, it isn't terrible, but I find myself yawning and looking for other things to do when watching each episode (I haven't watched the latest one, I just can't be bothered). It is relatively predictable, and that isn't a bad thing necessarily, but here it makes it pretty boring to watch.The Presentation - (Mini-Spoiler) Okay, the show starts off with a bang; immediately throwing you in the midst of elites trying to sabotage a city. Sounds good, no? No. There is no easing into a pretty poor story, there is no character development of any sort, and because of these two points, you just can't seem to give a.. you get the point. The beauty of the Halo world is completely marginalized and presented shallow. Honestly, it is insulting. Acting - LOL. The acting or dialogue or directing given to the actors is on the cusp of bad and mediocre. It isn't engaging, but that could be because there is no background story, no character development, and you barely even feel you are watching Halo. If you tie all those points together, you could have Johnny Depp acting and it wouldn't make a difference. Overall, this series is insulting. Admittedly, they spent a good deal of time and money on the gear and the vehicles and all that jazz, which looks authentic and freakin' awesome, but apart from that bright spot which is always done correctly... this is not Halo. This is not the beauty of the Halo world as described in the books and games. Let me put it this way... if I had a friend who had never heard of Halo, I would steer clear of this series as it simply is not even in the same realm. Supremely disappointed. Whoever is in charge needs to take their time, spend money where money needs to be spent, consult correctly, get better actors (not A+++ actors, just better), and NEEDS to understand the beauty of the Halo world. Stop butchering this; it makes me, as a long time fan, irritated.