BY ADAM QUANDT | Arts & Entertainment Editor | The Statesman
Halo 4: Forward unto Dawn
Director: Stewart Hendler
Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy
Length: 91 minutes
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Netflix Rating: 4 out of 5
My Rating: 1 out of 5
For those of you who are followers of the “Halo” videogame series you might be extremely excited to find out that there is a live-action movie based on the fourth game in the series.
I regret to inform you that you should not get too excited. I barely made it through the end of the movie.
“Forward unto Dawn” follows a group of young cadets in the UNSC military training program. The movie follows the typical “training movie” plot line. First the group struggles and wants to quit and then is forced to come together during mass chaos.
One thing the movie did exceptionally well is bringing in a lot of different aspects and inside things from the video games.
That is the main reason the movie received the one star rating I gave it. Had it not been for the excitement at the ending similar to the video games the movie probably would’ve missed out on all five stars.
Most of the movie features sub-par acting, very obvious low budget special effects and CGI animation, and a very slow moving plot line until the end.
If you are a fan of the videogame series or are interested in watching this movie, I highly recommend saving yourself some time and just skipping ahead to the last 20-25 minutes of the movie.