Waddington’s Aiken is the beating heart of the drama, Mike Colter’s ( Million Dollar Baby, Salt) Locke, is it’s conscience Christina Chong’s ( Johnny English, Dominion) Macer is the eternal optimist to counter-balance their war-weary, bleak outlook. Overlay the tensions among the soldiers over who gets off the rock in the two-seater space tug, and there’s a recipe for mutiny and distrust amongst a killer elite. Cue space-ship crash, loss of tech, and a trek across hostile wasteland to retrieve the nuclear weapon which will deal with the chemical weapon problem. What do you know, the indigenous lifeforms turn out to be a wriggly mass of space-worms attracted to electronics. Second, although Ridley Scott’s Scott Free production company gathers an impressive TV cast making the most of unoriginal material to deliver a compelling sci-fi drama, I’m no expert but even I know this isn’t Halo as-played.īeginning with, and laced through with entirely unnecessary cod-philosopical voiceover by Steven Waddington’s ( Imitation Game) ex-marine Aiken, the set-up of vast future space colonies and interstellar wars comes down to a Hitchcock McGuffin a unique element toxic only to humans, found only on one derelict slab of the Halo space station, built by the Ancients 100,000 years ago.ĭespatching a detachment of Spartans – space marines – with the local colony security force, we’re in Aliens territory complete with drop-ships, high-tech weaponry and a lot of macho B-S in the dialogue. Without the budget to stage a full-on Halo combat story, however, Nightfall instead references a bunch of other movies, with a large dollop of Jim Cameron’s Aliens, Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and a huge swathe of generic sci-fi from Riddick to Lockout.įirst question: do we treat this original five-episode X-Box Originals web series as TV, or as I saw it assembled, as a movie? For once, a video game adaptation that doesn’t feel like you’re watching someone else play the game.
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