MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Trey Yancy This is a film for Halo fans. If you aren'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't know the games, you don't get much out of this. Other than a couple of training exercises, the first hour pretty much drags - teen melodrama.

Granger Well-done story about cadets in the Halo-world military training facility. Would be better if people knew the Cortana and Master Chief story. As it is, slightly weak ending but fascinating storyline and good acting, filming and directing.

nick-6-41252 I like my science fiction films and books, especially military science fiction. I was looking forward to what promised to be a good film about a future military, with a focus on tactics and hardware, as well as a good story and character development. I was so disappointed. This was 60% dull clichés and 35% incoherent gibberish, with about 5% of promise. I still have no idea what the wobble about space debris at the start and end of the film was about, other than that one of the ship's there for some reason gave the film its title, and that the guy at the end was, through the clumsy reference to the blister scars, the protagonist of the main part of the film. The first hour of the film pulled out every cliché it could about young people in a military academy - expectations of parents, rebellion against Da Man, tough tomboy, suppressed romance, yadda yadda yadda. Once the bad guys and big strong good guys turn up, it turns from dull to incomprehensible, with awful dialogue and poor acting ("call me ... master chief" - cringe). And having got through the first big action scene - the cliché of having to get through hostile territory to. The pickup point - and introduced the new badly CGId big strong good guys, it just stopped. Truly awful.

native84 In my opinion , this movie/web-series has been over-rated by Halo fans and in the end it will be to everyone'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.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.I won't go into plot, as 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.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 "bullet time" segments bogged the action down. All in all I was disappointed by Halo 4: Forward Until Dawn and I (like many others I'm sure) am still praying for a Blomkamp/Jackson treatment of the source material.I do not believe that 10/10 rankings of an obviously flawed series/movie will get us there.