Halo: Landfall (2007) User Reviews

Very good short film!

[dwhooley · 8/10 · 14 June 2020]

We see Blomkamp take a very interesting path when shooting this film. Shows the desperate lengths the UNSC went through to find Master Chief and shot brilliantly

This should have been the look of the recent series.

[ourena · 9/10 · 14 August 2022]

I remember when I first saw this short film online, I was extremely excited about the possibility of it becoming a full length feature film. Neil Blomkamp perfectly captured the look and feel of the Halo universe out to that point. I can't but feel disappointed of what was finally in the Halo series. I keep coming to this and the "Deliver Hope" ad, as the definitive example and the "should have been" of a Halo TV or cinematic.production.

Military mini

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 6 October 2017]

"Halo: Landfall" is a 7-minute short film from 2007, so this one has its 10th anniversary this year and it was among the final short film works by South African director Neill Blomkamp before he made the Oscar-nominated District 9, which in my opinion is still easily his best career effort. As for this one here: You get an impression of what a live action version of the mega-successful video game Halo with Blomkamp as director would have looked like. The genre is not my preferred choice and the story, if there was one, did not impress me either I must admit. Yes it did look okay overall, but this turns it a bit into style over substance. Still I think war movie enthusiasts and huge Halo fans can find it appealing, so these groups are perhaps the only ones who may want to check it out. For me personally, it is a contender for Blomkamp's worst.