There is a rather weak attempt to turn the show into a psychological study of people put in a difficult situation, but it doesn't really work. This begins in episode 2 and continues all through to the end of episode 4, which is about an hour of viewing. The initial setup and "mission" are quite promising, but after that first episode, what was an interesting scifi concept turns into "Quarry Walking Simulator 2014". When I recall that the episodes are only twenty minutes long, that is actually far worse than it sounds. I generally like any kind of military scifi, but I have to say, this show is starting to tax my patience. Title (Brazil): "Halo: Nightfall" Note: On, I saw this film again. However, for those like me that do not play the game, this movie is highly entertaining. I have glanced at the negative reviews and apparently they belong to fans of a video game that are not satisfied with the movie. The story was released edited on a DVD as a feature and it works. "Halo: Nightfall" is a good and underrated sci-fi adventure. On the arrival, they find two terrorists but are trapped in Halo by weird worms that are attracted by technology. Aiken, Locke and his team head to Halo in the spacecraft Condor with pilot Macer (Christina Chong) carrying a Havoc weapon to destroy the place. Sedran Commander Aiken (Steven Waddington) captures the middleman Axl (Jonathan Harden) that tells that the element is obtained from Alpha Halo, where the day longs 16 h and the temperature in the sunlight reaches 482o C. They realize that it is a biological attack with an element fatal to humans. They unsuccessfully try to stop the alien that explodes the bomb in a mall. In Planet Sedra, Commander Jameson Locke (Mike Colter) and his team witness a Covenant's spacecraft and a Zealot Elite warrior disembarks with a bomb. The ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence has been tasked with counterintelligence to beat the Covenant. Despite the ceasefire, Earth's outer colonies remain vulnerable to the Covenant's covert intrusions. In the 28th Century, the prolonged war between humanity and the fanatical alien alliance the Covenant has ended with a tenuous treaty. It did seem really low budget, though, and I have to ask myself what is the purpose of a low budget sci-fi series pilot which brings nothing in terms of story or characters? It only prepares an even less worked on series, right? Update: didn't realize that "the pilot" was the whole first season. Bottom line: forgettable, but not that terrible. As a complete noob, I had no idea who MasterChef (he he!) was and what a Halo was. Also, it didn't really say anything about the Halo universe. As I have not played the game, I have no quarrels with that aspect of the movie, however it did seem that it had nothing to do with how a specialized fighting force would behave in the 26th century. Other than that, the plot is predictable, but not terrible, the acting is good and it kept me watching it, even if I knew how it would end from the first half of the movie. So basically, an entire setup for a medieval like quest, only on an alien world. It starts promising, detailing the threat and "the mission", it shows the characters, then they all go to an isolated place where technology works against them. The worst thing about the pilot is that it is not that sci-fi.
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