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It doesn’t help that when, half an hour in, it’s revealed only two people are getting off Halo alive, you could stop watching there and know exactly who is sticking around for Nightfall 2 (please don’t be a thing.) pretty much throughout) but the entire cast is so dull its hard to invest in anyone. I think we are supposed to root for the Sedrans, because those ONI guys are space racists and make fun of their hokey-cokey religious beliefs (and then precede to shout ‘Oh God’, ‘So help me God’ etc.

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Instead the soldiers are a predictable collection of action movie cliches: the leader, the nice one, the bad one, the mad one and the girl. In fact, other than the armour (which they take off half way through the film) there really isn’t much Halo in this Halo at all, one brief glimpse of the fan favourite Elite enemy from the games aside. He’s mentioned once, and one of the characters may have been mates with him or something, but otherwise this is very much a side story. Oh right, Master Chief, iconic helmet wearing tough dude- he doesn’t appear at all here.

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This is a smart move because Nightfall’s dialogue is basically a series of banal chunks of exposition, the highlight of which is the gruff Sean Bean-a-like army colonel declaring ‘No more proper nouns’, or perhaps the emotional climax of the film hinging on the line ‘Let the beads decide.’ I’m guessing there’s a good reason Master Chief, the star of the Halo games, doesn’t talk much. The director plays to this strength with a series of long, slow pans over peoples forearms and gun sights, fetishizing the equipment to the point that the talking heads poking out of the top seem almost an afterthought. The nicest thing to say about Nightfall is that they sure did make the armour and guns look a lot like the armour and guns in the Halo games. Oh and Halo was destroyed so much that the entire place is now just a bunch of rocks that look not unlike, oh I don’t know, maybe a disused quarry that might be cheap to hire for a few days filming?

Also they can only go at night because reasons, hence Nightfall. Sorry, they form up on my six and lift off in ten, ASAP oscar mike something something. Reluctantly accompanied by the local militia and led by the charismatic (not really) Locke, our intrepid band of military jargon babbling heroes head to Halo to destroy the deadly weapon.

Nightfall follows a group of ONI soldiers (space marines) stationed to the backwater planet Sedra, who uncover a plot to wipe out humanity with a biological weapon, the components for which are found only on the wreckage of the titular Halo space station. Basically, there was a war with aliens, and now there isn’t. Pitched as a bridge between the games Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians, the film starts with a wall of text to get any non-Halo fans up to speed.

Halo: Nightfall the ‘movie’ is an edited version of Halo:Nightfall the ‘digital series’ which has been available since late last year for anyone unfortunate enough to buy the half-broken Master Chief Collection on Xbox One.