a5c7b9f00b At a UNSC military training camp on Cirnicus-IV, Tom Laskey trains to fight Insurrectionist (terrorist rebels). But while training mankind is encountered by a religious alien military knownthe Covenant, bent on fulfilling the ultimate destiny of the forerunners. It is up to Tom and his squad to escape the planet and live to fight another day. In 2525,mankind has begun to colonise space, a group of cadets are training to fight against human insurrectionists. One of these cadets, Thomas Lasky, has doubts about his abilitiesa soldier and his convictions for this war. Whilst he struggles with himself, the planet is invaded by an unknown alien race. Reeling under the assault, Lasky and his squad mates are rescued by John-117, one of the UNSC&#39;s legendary SPARTAN-II super-soldiers. John must inspire Lasky to fulfill his potentiala soldier and a leader to fight against an enemy deadlier than any that humanity has faced before. This is a film for Halo fans. If you aren&#39;t, a lot of this is meaningless - three minutes of beautiful CG with vague snippets about a wrecked space ship, followed by an hour of teen angst, then a shoot-em-up on campus with space aliens and a snippet about the space ship again. If you don&#39;t know the games, you don&#39;t get much out of this. Other than a couple of training exercises, the first hour pretty much drags - teen melodrama. In my opinion , this movie/web-series has been over-rated by Halo fans and in the end it will be to everyone&#39;s detriment. If Microsoft/343 Studios get the impression they can release something like this and hit one out of the park we will just see more of it in the future.<br/><br/>As a Halo and Movie fan I believe this would be a shame. The source material (the Halo universe) has the potential to bring something truly great to the big screen but this is far from it.<br/><br/>I won&#39;t go into plot,it has been covered in many reviews, but I will say it is clichéd. The military boot-camp stereotypes have all been done before and with much more depth. These characters seemed one-dimensional and lackluster development left me indifferent to their fates. Some of the dialogue was corny to the point of cringe-worthy and the actors (including some of the adults) lacked the presence to pull off their roles and really set the scene.<br/><br/>Given the relatively small budget some of these things can be understood but the hackneyed plot is not one of them. The special effects were good, despite said constraints, but too many &quot;bullet time&quot; segments bogged the action down. <br/><br/>All in all I was disappointed by Halo 4: Forward Until Dawn and I (like many others I&#39;m sure) am still praying for a Blomkamp/Jackson treatment of the source material.<br/><br/>I do not believe that 10/10 rankings of an obviously flawed series/movie will get us there.
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