Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Mo Buck
Based on the video game series
Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Ben Foster, Chadwick Boseman, Sarah Gadon, Margaret Qualley, Ed Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Hugo Weaving, John Lithgow, John Slattery
Plot: Former Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice Thel'Vadamee (Ben Foster) is being tried for his failure to protect Halo. The three prophets, Regret (Hugo Weaving), Mercy (John Lithgow) and Truth (Ed Harris) of find him guilty and he's stripped of his rank and branded with the mark of shame by Tartarus (Ben Mendelsohn).
On the Orbital Defense Platform, Master Chief (Alexander Skarsgard) is given a new armor by Avery Johnson (Chadwick Boseman) recently promoted to Sergeant Major. Fleet Admiral Terrance Hood (John Slattery) oversees a ceremony awarding Master Chief, Johnson and Miranda Keyes (Margaret Qualley), accepting the award for her deceased father. It is interrupted by Cortana (Sarah Gadon), announcing 15 Covenant Ships invading Earth. Master Chief and his squad team up together to protect the station. The Master Chief sends the bomb placed in the station by Covenants in space, destroying a couple of ships in the process. After successfully protecting the station, the Master Chief is sent on Earth's surface to fight off the Covenant Army in New Mombasa with Johnson and Miranda Keyes.
Led by the Prophet of Regret, the Covenant Army, despite the element of surprise of their attack, struggle against the Earth's army. The Master Chief, after being dropped a bit away from action, is able to reach Johnson' and Miranda's post. After a lengthy battle, they're able to hold off the Covenant Army, who flees Earth, with the squad chasing them in the UNSC's In Amber Clad ship. The New Mombasa city is left completely destroyed after the both ships use their atmosphere jumps, killing thousands of citizens in the process.
After the Prophet of Regret left to lead the Covenant Army in Earth's invasion, the Prophets of Truth and Mercy allow Thel'Vadamee to become an Arbiter, a will of the Prophets, tasked to complete something impossible for redemption of his crimes. They task him to kill the Heretic Leader, a Covenant who was the chief of a gas mine who started a rebellion against the Prophets. The Arbiter is sent in the gas mine, battling both the heretics and the Flood, parasite organisms. He finally finds the Leader, with 343 Guilty Spark,a human built oracle who now sides with the Covenants. The battle resumes and the Leader is killed by the Arbiter. He tries to gain information on why the Heretics betrayed the Covenants, but Tartarus arrives out of nowhere, extracting 343 Guilty Spark from the gas mine.
Miranda Keyes and her fleet were able to follow the Prophet of Regret without being caught. They realize that Regret led them to another Halo ring. Keyes determines that Regret should be killed before he destroys the Ring. John-117 is dropped on the ring surface with ODSTs to kill Regret. After marching on the Ring with the ODSTs and killing Regret's personal guard, the Master Chief is able to kill the Prophet. However, John-117 is unable to escape and is forced to jump in a lake and being dragged by the tentacles of the Gravemind, an highly intelligent Flood.
The Arbiter, who needed to complete one more task to have his crimes pardoned, was sent by the two remaining prophets on the Ring to recover the Sacred Icon, essential in the Ring's destruction. Arbiter encounters Johnson and Keyes who wanted to take possession of the Icon and captures them while taking possession of the tool. Tartarus intervenes again, freeing Johnson and Keyes and taking the Icon from the Arbiter. Tartarus reveals himself to be a traitor as he throws the Arbiter in the lake.
Both John-117 and the Arbiter are now in the abyss underneath the lake, saved by the Gravemind, who tells them that the Halos destroy life, they don't save it. The Ring being right next to the Arbiter's home, he reluctantly joins the Master Chief in his quest to destroy the Ring. The Gravemind sends the Master Chief after Tartarus to retrieve the Icon, while he sends the Arbiter to the Control Room to halt the Covenant from activating the Ring's auto-destruction.
The Master Chief appears right in the middle of a war zone. He battles Covenants while helping a couple of Marines. He enters the Covenant's headquarters on the Ring and makes his way through the conference room, where he witnesses Floods, controlled by the Gravemind, enter the High Charity, where the two remaining Prophets are. Mercy is infected by the Flood, but Truth manages to escape, telling John-117, knowing that he's listening that he's going to Earth to finish what Regret started. The Master Chief boards a ship and leaves Cortana behind, promising her that he'll come back for her.
The Arbiter is teleported close to the Halo's control room. There, he meets Johnson and Keyes with whom he forms an unlikely alliance to prevent the Halo to fire on the nearby planet. They manage to breach in the control room, where they find Tartarus and 343 Guilty Spark. They are overwhelmed by Tartarus' forces power and Tartarus manages to activate the Halo's firing procedure. In one final effort, Johnson, the Arbiter and Keyes manage to kill Tartarus and to stop the Halo from firing. However, 343 Guilty Spark tells them that he send a message to the rest of the Halos to prevent them from auto-destruction, which makes all of their work worthless, and placed them all on fire mode stand by for remote activation from the Ark, the first and biggest Halo.
Truth arrives on Earth, with the Master Chief behind him, warning Admiral Hood of his presence and telling him that need to finish this fight.
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