Halo: Nightfall
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. As they unravel a plot that draws them to an ancient, hellish artifact, they will be forced to fight for their survival, question everything and ultimately choose between their loyalty and their lives.
Our read · Halo: Nightfall (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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