![]() Led by Locke, ONI agents are left with little choice but to coordinate with Randall Aiken (Steven Waddington), a local commander with a remarkable history and deep-rooted mistrust of ONI. Investigating terrorist chatter on the distant colony world of Sedra, he and his team are soon caught in a horrific biological attack. 'Nightfall' tells the personal story of Jameson Locke (Mike Colter), a legendary manhunter and agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Earth's most powerful and secretive military branch. As direct-to-video sci-fi goes, you could certainly do worse. It not only squanders a precious opportunity, it fails to accomplish anything more than delivering a decent, frustratingly disconnected side story. Unfortunately, Nightfall isn't going to convince anyone that Halo belongs on the big screen. A successful live-action series could feasibly persuade Hollywood to invest in a proper Halo feature film. The goal? To expand the Haloverse in interesting new directions, establish characters we'll meet in Halo 5: Guardians this fall, and provide a proof of concept for bigger, better things. Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, March 13, 2015Įxecutive producer Ridley Scott and director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan's Halo: Nightfall follows Forward Unto Dawn as another ambitious foray into the world of Master Chief, the UNSC and the deadly Covenant.
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