Halo (Film)

The Halo Film was released in 2010, of November.

Synopsis
The film does not follow game and book canon. It opens on a battlefield in reach, we see several Marines fighting Elites and Grunts. Soon, they have to fall back due to heavy losses, among these are two young Privates, Jason Crispy and Jack Krowe. They then escape from a rampant Elite which uncloaks behind them with a never before seen weapon called a Needler Gun. It fires large, massive crystalline rods which smash into an object and explode. They dodge it narrowly and manage to get onto a Pelican as it is escaping from Reach with the help of an un-named SPARTAN-II who is shot in the back by the Elite. He explodes, and the Elite roars in triumph.

The Pelican makes it to the Pillar of Autumn and we can see cryo tubes being rolled down the hall, we get a glimpse of The Master Chief. Crispy and Krowe then meet Sergeant Johnson who tells them it ain't gonna be no walk in the park anymore, and that they are preparing to jump in an attempt to lead the Covenant asses away from Earth. Crispy is nervous. We then see Johnson talking to Captain Keyes and the ship jumps.

The scene then goes to the interior of The Supreme Commander's flagship, where he is promoting the Elite that killed the Spartan later revealed to be James. The Elite is revealed as Zuka 'Zamamee, and he is now being promoted to Spec Ops Officer, and thus, is being given command of his own squad of Elites and an assistant named Yayap. The Supreme Commander Vadam then tells them to follow The Pillar of Autumn with all the ships under his rule. They then jump.

On the other side, they arrive at Halo. The Pillar of Autumn falls under attack and Keyes orders them to open The Hushed Casket. The science officer knows what he is talking about. He accompanies Crispy and Krowe to the cryo chamber A, just in time to see The Master Chief arrive out of his cryo tube. The first words from his mouth are, "What are my orders?" Just as he is about to leave, the ship shakes as they realise they are being boarded. The Science officer ushers the duo through the door which closes just as an Elite smashes through the door and smashes the officers head in. Blood then splatters on the window obscuring their view. The two rush down a hallway and are nearly taken out by a plasma bolt from a Grunt that Johnson had killed. He asks them how they're doin', and then he tells them to follow him to an escape pod as the whole ship shakes, gun fire is audible throughout the vessel and dead bodies, both human and non-human are also abundant. Crispy spots a Plasma Grenade, unactivated, and slips it into his rucksack. They manage to throw themselves into an escape pod with The Master Chief who blasts an Elite in the face with his M6D, and then Crispy manages to blast another in the chest with his Shotgun.

As they crash on the ring, most of the crew is killed except for Johnson, Crispy, Krowe, and Master Chief. They make their way through the foothills, almost being spotted by a Jackal scout party, which Krowe manages to snipe the leader of. They proceed along the trench, rallying two surviving parties and they manage to get to an evac position just as a Covenant Dropship spots them and opens fire. Master Chief is then almost captured by Zuka Zamamee, but Johnson manages to save him and Chief and the others escape.

They then arrive at the base of the Truth & Reconciliation as the concentration of Covenant guards below the grav-lift enter it for resupplies. They covertly sneak up to the grav-lift, but are spotted and the Covenant deploy a Hunter pair to kill them, this is the first real battle of the movie. It is six marines, including Crispy, Krowe, and Johnson, and The Master Chief. The Two Hunters start by wiping out two of them with their cannons, and then Krowe manages to get a lucky shot on one of them, which angers it. It goes for Krowe and then it stumbles over a rock and looses cohesion and falls apart, dying. The remaining Hunter goes suicide rage and storms Krowe, but is intercepted by The Master Chief who tries backpedaling firing at it with his Assault Rifle, but the Hunter continues pressing on. It then hits him and he goes flying. The Hunter then towers over him, and then its shield activates spikes along its edge, and as it is about to drive its shield into his face, Crispy remembers the plasma grenade. He primes it, leaps into the air, and sticks it right on its back, pulls Master Chief down the hill with him out of the blast radius, and it explodes in a shower of orange gore. Johnson threatens to court marshal Crispy for putting Chief's life in danger, reminding him it is their responsibility to make sure he and Cortana live. Cortana defends Crispy and suggests that they board the ship now. They board the ship and are teleported to the interior of it. They then split up and arrive at the brig to see Keyes in a holding cell which Chief deactivates. Keyes re-joins them and explains Halo to them, which Cortana retorts they need to find The Control Room before The Covenant. They then meet back at a large docking bay as two more pairs of Hunters flank them. They pile in and Keyes takes the controls and suggests giving them a kiss goodbye as he rams the ship into the side killing The Hunters before they can fully charge their weapons. They then escape.

They rendezvous at Alpha Base which is where all of the UNSC forces are located. They reload and board Pelicans inbound for the last relayed location of The Island.

They land at a structure and the Marines split up, with Master Chief and 3 Marines at the security over-ride, and Johnson, Crispy, and Krowe waiting at the main structure. The spartan and his marines manage to locate it, and activate it, but are soon after attacked by Hunters, and behind the wall we see Zuka Zamamee cloak and run off. The Marines tell Chief they'll hold off The Hunters, and for him to pursue that bastard, as they shout through gun-fire while dodging fuel rod blasts. The Master Chief runs out into the daylight, and we can see he is oblivious to Zuka perched on the top of the building. He then runs off and Chief is distracted by a Pelican crash nearby. Cortana says, "Oh, that must be Bravo 22, I called for us to get some Heavy weapons when I realised we were going against Hunters." Chief hops down and grabs two M19SSMs to give to one of the Marines.

Back at the structure, the squad is waiting impatiently in front of the door. "c'mon chief." and then the door opens and a Zealot steps through and roars. Johnson orders them to open fire, but it falls back. "Go go go!" yells Johnson. They proceed into the hallway Johnson kicks a sleeping Grunt off of the edge. Then the Zealot sneaks up behind one of the Marines and impales him with its Energy Sword. They then open fire on it and kill it. Crispy then takes its sword, mentioning it might come in handy. He keeps his Assault Rifle out though. They then locate the Cartographer and the Pelican comes by and picks them up, taking them underground, which Cortana mentions it'll be the last thing The Covenant expect.

As they arrive on the other-side a Grunt sees them and runs, and the Elite opens fire, but is blown to bits by the Chief's Rocket Launcher. They pile out and Cortana says he forgot to lend this to him, Crispy. Crispy takes the Rocket Launcher and slings it, along with his Energy Sword, and keeps his Assault Rifle out, Krowe covers him with his Sniper Rifle. They proceed into the structure and are attacked by stealth elites but are heavily outnumbered and so they fall back out to the bridge, where they are attacked by a Banshee. Master Chief boards it, and Echo 419 tells the trio she'll pick them up on the ledge ahead. They get to the ledge and get on just as two Hunters open fire on them. The Banshee and Pelican rendezvous at the Control Room and pile out in front of the door, just as it opens and nine Elites and a Zealot open fire on them. Master Chief falls back and they open fire with their Rocket Launchers, killing five of them, but they run out, and so Crispy drops the Launcher and gets out his Energy Sword. Krowe and Johnson take out two Elites, Krowe with his Sniper and Johnson with his Assault Rifle, and Crispy takes out one and injures one, which grabs him by the neck and snarls at him, but Krowe blows its head off. Master Chief, who is searching for the Zealot, gets his answer when it pops up behind him and almost impales him if it had not been for his reflexes. He and the Elite then fight as it swings after him and misses over and over again. He then manages to get it in a headlock from behind but it slings him over its shoulder onto the ground. It then raises its blade into the air, but Crispy impales it from behind and helps the Chief up. "You know, that is the second time, me, Johnson and Krowe have saved you on this ring." he says. They proceed into the Control Room and Master Chief puts Cortana into the core, and this is the first time we see her physically in-game. She then tells them about Keyes and they rush to a Dropship.

They arrive at the swamp in time to see Covenant running from an unseen enemy. They penetrate into the structure to find Covenant dead everywhere, as well as UNSC, but they also see most of their insides are just mutilated, Johnson suggests something else went down here besides just Covenant on Marines, something far worse. They proceed into a room and Master Chief notices the HMD of Jenkins playing over and over again, just seeing them getting butchered by unknown enemies, all he could see was static, then they hear cracking. They search for where it is, and then one of the Marines looks up to see a swarm of insect-like creatures smashing against an overhead pane of glass. It then shatters and the swarm falls down onto the Marine and devours him alive. They then go for the other 4 and they manage to escape and run into what appears to be the standing corpse of an Elite, who hits Chief and Krowe aside. Johnson and Crispy then fight an infected Jenkins and swarm of infected zombified Humans before escaping into the rain. They meet up with Chief and Krowe, and make it to a Pelican and are taken to the Control Room.

They meet up with Cortana who is in a heated argument with a floating orb and several large machine-looking "sentinels". The orb reveals himself as 343 Guilty Spark, Monitor of Installation 04, and he insists that Chief hand over the contstruct (Cortana) when he picks her up and re-inserts her into his helmet. They escape from The Monitor and his Sentinels and Cortana suggests that Chief destroy the Phase Pulse Generator to buy them time. They then locate the generator which is over-run with Flood. Chief almost kills himself destroying it, and the three of them, Krowe, Johnson and Crispy, manage to get Chief into a Banshee and the three of them manage to fit inside, with Johnson at the controls, Master Chief in the passenger seat, and Krowe and Crispy hanging onto the wings. Cortana then tells the Chief that they need to find Keyes. They land and Cortana manages to hack into the Monitor's teleportation network and teleport them into the crashed ship of the Truth & Reconciliation.

They end up inside and manage to break into the control center to find Keyes infected by The Flood. He tells them to get out of here before more of the Flood come and take his nueral implant with them. Chief obeys and smashes his fist into his face, pulling the implant with him. They then manage to pile into two Banshees and escape to the Pillar of Autumn which Cortana plans to use of its fusion reactors to destroy the ring before the Flood find a way off.

They arrive at the ship and notice a re-occurance of the number seven. Cortana then figures out that this number is a sign, a warning, and that they need to be on the look out for it's occurance. They get to the ships engine room and Chief begins the exposure process, and they realise that the Flood are infiltrating the ship, aswell as the Monitor and his Sentinels. They get even more bad news when the Monitor tells Cortana that they are being hunted by an Elite named Zuka Zamamee. The Chief tells Crispy, Krowe, and Johnson to take a warthog and use the maintenance shaft to escape to a Pelican to get off the ring. The trio mount up and set off, realising that they only have seven minutes to get off the Autumn. The chief manages to get into a warthog after destroying the generators with grenades and follow them. Meanwhile, below the maintenance shaft in the maintenance airways, Yayap is arguing with Zuka about revealing himself to The Demon and his Minions. Zuka says these things are going to go his way and Yayap points a Plasma Pistol at him and tells him he is leaving, and that if he refuses to let him go he will kill him. Zuka agrees to let Yayap go and he leaves the ship on a Ghost. Zuka then formulates a plan with the small squad of Elites he has left, he will confront the Demon on his way to the Longsword fighter left in the hangar bay. Their two Warthogs then collide, one of them is heavily damaged so the four of them pile into one. They jump the gap and manage to make it to the final lift to the longsword fighter, but the warthog gets hit by a fuel rod cannon from a Grunt and is damaged. Crispy stand over and injured Krowe and tells Chief to get the Sergeant out of there, and that he'll stay with Krowe, and tells him he won't leave him alone. He tells the Chief Cortana is too important and has too much information to be destroyed or captured by The Monitor. The chief regretfully obligues and races to the lift with Johnson on his back. The chief arrives at the lift and his hit across the face by Zuka who laughs, holding his Needler Gun in one hand, he orders his underlings to collect the Sergeant, they do so and the Chief becomes angry and tackles Zuka, but the Sergeant collects his strength and punches the Elite in the gut and blasts another with a Shotgun. He blasts the other, and as he sees the Master Chieg get knocked into a wall, he is knocked out from behind. Zuka places his foot on the Chief's head and says that he cannot when, and then he tells him his luck has just run out. Chief then pulls out a pistol, saying "not yet." and fires into the Elite's foot. Zuka falls backwards, and Chief and the sergeant stand back to back. Together, they kill off the Elites, and Johnson manages to get up the lift and chief is blown off by the explosion from Zuka's Needler Gun. He then fires wildly at the heavily injured Chief, missing, destroying the platform. The Master Chief is then beaten to a crisp by Zuka, who is then about to execute "The Demon" with his Needler Gun but it backfires and drives a large crystal right into his head. Master Chief thinks fast and dodges out of the way as it explodes, blowing the Elites upper torso to shreds. Chief manages to pull himself up to the longsword fighter and into it, and weakly sits next to Johnson, who flies them to safety.

The final scene is of Crispy leaning over Krowe's lifeless body, sobbing, and then as the halo theme plays, a beam of light plays over them. We then see Yayap sluggishly pulling himself through the sand, a ruined Ghost in the distance, and behind him we see the Pillar of Autumn, and the massive silhouette of a Covenant Carrier, and it is then that we realise that the light beam over Crispy and Krowe was that of a Covenant Grav-Lift. And just as the ship enters slip space and the Autumn's outer plates begin to be sucked in with it, it explodes. We see the ring blowing up, and in the reflection of the Chief's unconcious visor. As the Chief lies unconscious next to Johnson, we hear his thoughts, and how he thinks this war has only begun, and then we cut to credits.

Cast

 * Sergeant Johnson - Will Smith
 * John-117 - Vin Diesel
 * UNSC AI "Cortana" - Jen Taylor
 * Pvt Krowe - Shia LaBeouf
 * Pvt Crispy - A. Ambrose
 * Spec Ops Officer Zuka Zamamee - Tony Todd
 * Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee - Keith David

Trivia

 * The only words the Master Chief says in the entire film are "Not Yet." and "What are my orders?" other than that, Cortana speaks through him.
 * Master Chief is not the main character, only a supporting character, Johnson is the main character.
 * The weapon Zuka weilds is called a Needler Gun, despite being called a Needler and being abundant in the games, it is the only one of its kind seen in the film.
 * All the Elites seen in the film are all have the same color armor, except for the Zealots, the Grunts are also all the same color, and the Jackals all wield blue shields.
 * There will be a game version of the movie released for the 360.