Halo: Nightfall

I Was enjoying this film up till 1hr 53mins in where the sound track for the speech is lost.

Watching on a firehd 8 and at 52 mins sound just goes, thanks for wasting my time Amazon i could have watched something decent but I thought I'd give this a chance

We were enjoying this but we lost the sound half way through and this appears to be an issue with some of Amazon's streaming movies. The reviews are right, don't start this unless you enjoy not being able to finish watching.

Was OK ..but the talking suddenly stopped halfway through. The music was there....sound effects...we're there...but the vocals were gone...strange.

Halo: Nightfall has gotten some flak since its release in November, and some of it is justified.Let's all be real about this; this is no 'Halo Movie' substitute, and it's not exactly going to blow anyone's mind. It's a little slow - slower than a live action Halo story should be, I fear, and it's also a little 'dull' - this doesn't have the same tone, feeling or atmosphere as any of the Halo games, or even any of the books. It's kind of doing its own thing in terms of tone, which is fine to an extent. What it does have is a sense of sombreness, what it means to be a soldier and all that jazz, a simple, focused story that admittedly we have all seen a thousand times before, but never in the Halo universe, and we get to see some live action Halo tropes with near-Hollywood production values (I'll explain why 'near' in bit).The story of Nightfall is really, really simple; the Covenant Remnant (as they're now known) has got its hands on some element that is basically toxic to humans, and humans alone, that was presumably manufactured by the Forerunners, as its source is traced to a piece of the original Halo ring (yep, the one from the first game that Master Chief destroyed). New character Locke is tasked with taking a team of marines as well as colonial officers to track down the source and destroy it. Of course, once they land their method of evacuation is compromised and they are then stranded on this piece of the Halo ring with only 16 hours until they are all fried by the heat of the local sun. To make matters worse, a sentient creature or creatures appears to be on the ring too, and seems bent on their destruction. The bulk of the movie is the characters being picked off one by one by these creatures whilst turning against each other as they realise only two of them will be able to make it off the Halo shard alive.So yeah, a story we've seen a thousand times before, but never in the Halo universe, so its addition is not unwelcome.Now, the bad stuff: the movie is far too slow, even the action scenes don't feel nearly as exciting as they should.It's also slightly pretentious. There's lots of long drawn out narration sequences where the narrator (one of the characters) drones on about 'god' and being a 'warrior' and some such nonsense....I mean, this takes up about 10 minutes of the movie altogether, and I personally don't feel it adds anything to it. It was a nice idea but it didn't really work.The supporting characters are largely uninteresting - I didn't care about a single one of them, so watching them drop like flies was not exactly engaging for me. There's also a few too many character cliches going on here - the plucky young 'rookie' who happens to be a borderline genius in both maths and physics but is nonetheless content to be a low level military grunt, is a little much (the line "....R-regional Nav.Physics I just leafed through when I was bored..." had me rolling my eyes).The CGI, too, is REALLY dodgy in places. The opening sequence with a Sangheili (Elite, to all you Halo philistines :P ) looks really suspect. For some bizarre reason they didn't use motion capture for it, instead it is hand animated and it really, really shows. The Sangheli's movements are really cartoony and unrealistic. I also noticed there are no shadows or effects on the water from the Covenant drop ship as it flies over the lake. Just really basic things that highlight how limited the production values were.They also seem to have invented an entirely new alien Covenant race just for this movie, and it seems the sole reason for this is so they could have a human actor in prosthetics playing an alien rather than using CGI for recognisable Covenant races. We have NEVER heard of this race before, and as soon as I saw it I went straight onto the Halo Wiki to find out what the hell was going on - turns out there are numerous Covenant races we haven't seen before, and the Covenant races we HAVE seen in Halo so far are simply the races that make up the military of the Covenant, or at least this is how they are explaining it. This kind of makes sense I suppose - it would be odd if every single member of the Covenant religion was a soldier - but it's slightly bizarre that until now we have never even heard of this 'Covenant Fringe' as they're now calling it.The opening scene also doesn't make a whole lot of sense, either; basically we see a Sangheili warrior running around a human population centre, and NO ONE seems to notice him. He manages to make it into a human city, through a packed shopping mall, without a single human civilian spotting him until Locke finds him. They could have explained this with cloaking (which would also have disguised the dodgy CGI) but they don't. Instead the Elite is just running around for all to see - yet no one does.Now, the good stuff: Locke is a pretty awesome character, which is due in no small part to Mike Colter. I'm already looking forward to playing as him in Halo 5, and considering Nightfall is essentially an origins story for him, in that respect it does the job. I hate it when people bring up race/skin colour in these kinds of things, because honestly it shouldn't even BE an issue, but that said, it is nice to see a heroic black lead, and not a 'supporting role', in an action sci fi work for a change.The enemy creature on the Halo ring - <<<<<<<<SPOILERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>are Lekgolo worms, or 'Hunter worms' - the worms that the 'Hunter' creatures from the Halo games are made up of - only these are pre-Covenant Lekgolo and are therefore 'free roaming', and thankfully the CGI on the worms looks fine. It was a nice surprise, and cool to see something recognisable and familiar from the Halo games, but in a form we haven't seen them in before (if you know about Halo lore you know that Hunter worms are not naturally in the 'warrior' shape we see them in in the games, but this is the first time we see them in their base form).The movie has received some negative criticism for its acting. Honestly, there's nothing wrong with the acting in this movie - people are going into it assuming it'll be another 'Forward Unto Dawn', and then perceiving 'bad acting' where there isn't any. None of the actors are going to win any Oscars for these performances, but the acting here is easily on a par with any mainstream sci fi show of the last 10 years, such as Battlestar or Stargate.So yeah, not great, but not terrible either. If you can watch this on the (god awful) 'Halo Channel', then I'd say it's not worth getting this bluray unless, like me, you're a collector of all things Halo, or if you cannot stomach the endless adverts and audio issues with the Halo Channel.The movie could have been a lot worse than it actually is, though I can't help but think the production wasn't wasted on the script/story - I would have much rather seen something with less CGI, and not set on an actual Halo shard, and something more dialogue driven involving Covenant terrorists told from the UNSC perspective - basically something like a live action version of the Spartan Ops DLC for Halo 4.But it could be worse - it could have been an absolute disaster that didn't resemble Halo in any way shape or form, and even contradicted basic Halo universe details, as seems to be the case with almost all live action movies based on videogames so far. :/

This is an average movie until around 53 minutes in, after that there is no dialogue sound. The actors' mouths move but there are no voices to be heard. After this I found it pointless watching any further. Where is Amazon's quality control?

As my headline highlights; the movie is very formulaic, which could have been saved by another plot thrown in to give a the storyline much needed complexity.Most of the characters were bland except for the character Jameson Locke.You had the staple cheesy characters such as the group a@@hole, and of course the chesty female in a tight fitting army camo vest ….. I think you get where im going with this.It is a bit cheesy, and tacky, and the movie lacked grit, lacked a great storyline, and the creatures that they had to battle was simply underwhelming, in fact at one point I reach for my iPhone and checked emails as the filmed rolled.One of the comments made by another and I agree with - at the beginning of the movie the humans not noticing this large alien Covenant creature running around the shopping mall; again just poor storyline.I thought that having Ridley Scott's name attached to this movie it would be pretty decent, but it wasn't.Disappointing movie.

I downloaded this film for my son to watch. He enjoyed it more than me ! It’s ok and is rated as a 12 so there’s no real swearing in it and the violence is mild to moderate. It is a spin off of the Halo games which are a science fiction type world set 500 hundred years in the future where everybody seems to shoot each other. Which is not my ideal vision of it. It’s OK but will depend on your age as to how much you like it. If you are a young gamer it should hit the spot and there is enough action to keep older ones engaged. This has real actors in it and is not an animation which some of the other spin off films are. It should keep any avid gamers quiet for a while. Enjoy.