The whole thing ticks along like a mid-price Swiss watch and does exactly what it says on the label – the one you find if you peel away the one that says Halo, because I still don’t think this is it. The plot is more or less by the numbers, you can guess precisely the order in which the characters fall and who’s left standing at the end. Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. Luke Neal ( Jupiter Ascending) as Horrigan has the thankless job of fermenting the mutiny. Waddington’s Aiken is the beating heart of the drama, Mike Colter’s ( Million Dollar Baby, Salt) Locke, is it’s conscience Christina Chong’s ( Johnny English, Dominion) Macer is the eternal optimist to counter-balance their war-weary, bleak outlook. Overlay the tensions among the soldiers over who gets off the rock in the two-seater space tug, and there’s a recipe for mutiny and distrust amongst a killer elite. Once you select Rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. Cue space-ship crash, loss of tech, and a trek across hostile wasteland to retrieve the nuclear weapon which will deal with the chemical weapon problem. What do you know, the indigenous lifeforms turn out to be a wriggly mass of space-worms attracted to electronics. Second, although Ridley Scott’s Scott Free production company gathers an impressive TV cast making the most of unoriginal material to deliver a compelling sci-fi drama, I’m no expert but even I know this isn’t Halo as-played.īeginning with, and laced through with entirely unnecessary cod-philosopical voiceover by Steven Waddington’s ( Imitation Game) ex-marine Aiken, the set-up of vast future space colonies and interstellar wars comes down to a Hitchcock McGuffin a unique element toxic only to humans, found only on one derelict slab of the Halo space station, built by the Ancients 100,000 years ago.ĭespatching a detachment of Spartans – space marines – with the local colony security force, we’re in Aliens territory complete with drop-ships, high-tech weaponry and a lot of macho B-S in the dialogue. Without the budget to stage a full-on Halo combat story, however, Nightfall instead references a bunch of other movies, with a large dollop of Jim Cameron’s Aliens, Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and a huge swathe of generic sci-fi from Riddick to Lockout.įirst question: do we treat this original five-episode X-Box Originals web series as TV, or as I saw it assembled, as a movie? For once, a video game adaptation that doesn’t feel like you’re watching someone else play the game.
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