TL;DR – This is a very definition of a mixed bag, with some promise shown, but also many issues.
















Rating: 3 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ service that viewed this episode.

Halo: Contact. Image Credit: Paramount+.

Halo Review –

I am what you would call an agnostic when it comes to the Halo video games. I didn't grow up with an Xbox (or PlayStation if you are about to go video game console wars in my comments), so Master Chief was someone I had a vague knowledge about but not someone I cared about. Since then, I have watched the first couple of games streamed, and I get the appeal, even if the narrative is now a bit dated with time. I forward this all right from the start, so you know where I am coming from with this review and before I start hacking chunks of this apart.

So to set the scene, it is the year 2552, and the human race has spread across the stars, but it has been fraught with division. On the planet Madrigal, designated a Tier 4 Heavy Water Extraction Planet, the locals have been fighting a war of independence from the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) for an age. However, one day as some kids from a local outpost, including the leader's daughter Kwan Ha Boo (Yerin Ha), go out into the woods, they stumble across not the UNSC and their feared Spartans, but something so much worse. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

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tldrmoviereviews | March 26, 2022 at 8:12 pm | Tags: American Television, Contact, Halo, Natascha McElhone, Pablo Schreiber, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Television, Shabana Azmi, Space Opera, Video Game Adaption, video games, Yerin Ha | Categories: 2022 Reviews, TV Reviews | URL: https://wp.me/p7kCL7-3Pt
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