Best movie ever!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It tries to more than it is, especially by kicking in few would-be philosophical voice-overs, but it's a straight-forward flick at heart.An overly-complicated introduction leads to a by-the-numbers middle section - which drags abominably - and if you don't know who's going to survive you probably gave it a higher-than-average score and you really need to read more books, watch more movies and be a little more discriminating so you know when scriptwriters write a script in their sleep.As a sci fi action romp it's disappointing but if you've low expectations and there are only soaps on TV you might want to waste an hour and forty minutes of your life on it. Far better have a nap.

It should be difficult to make sci fi dull but as we see, all too often, the so called movie mavens manage it, time and again. Lamentably Halo: Nightfall is yet another example of uninspiring storytelling that taps into a well established computer game franchise. This is not the first film based on the Halo games. To my knowledge Halo: Forward Unto Dawn was the first full film outing. It was a reasonable effort too. Sadly Nightfall is nowhere near as entertaining. It takes a hackneyed and well worn general premise that was never exciting to start with and for some, inexplicable reason, reinvents it. The result is a film that ticks all the boxes in terms of special effects, props, equipment, settings and a reasonable cast yet still manages to be slow paced and boring. My advice give this one a miss. In spite of the enticing subject matter there is little on offer here. If you have not seen the first film watch that instead and then skip forward to the new film coming out this year (assuming its not a lemon too, of course). Four out of ten from me.

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!

the story line was slow and boring, and then the cussing & the movie is supposed to be rated that a 7 year old could watch it, i personally would not want my child watching it. I'm not entertained but offended by the poor quality used in the making of the movie, i would highly recommend that movie makers use ethics, when i purchase a movie i like to be entertained not offended, the excessive use of profanity, and nudity, sexual content, and drug use or alcoholics. is offensive to me and not needed to make a movie. this will be the last halo movie i purchase due to the poor quality of film making, standards need to be set and followed. very disappointed with the movie and it's content.