Let's bear in mind that this came out several years before Netflix rudely awakened the slumbering movie industry with their 2017 Wil Smith project, "Bright".
-Which critics completely panned, not because it was bad, (it was a solid 7/10 movie which regular folks enjoyed), but because it bucked the system and made all the little Authoritarian reviewers feel threatened. (You can't get free passes and pats on the head if the regular Hollywood machine's distribution network gets bypassed and Netflix ignores you and doesn't send you review copies, and has the audacity to still rake in tens of millions of viewers without your shillmanship).
I love that! Hollyweird needs to undergo a serious purge at every level.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was essentially a grab bag item, like a coffee mug or tee shirt, swag to be released along with the latest episode in their flagship game franchise. I rolled my eyes when a gamer friend of mine insisted that I watch his DVD copy, "No, it's really good!"
Come on. It's a marketing product. An advert. How good can it possibly be?
So I strapped in, ready for a dose of tacky cheese...
And was blown away.
Wow! They hired real movie pros, actors, production teams. And script writers! It was better than most sci-fi TV shows.
I came to the end asking, "Is there more?"
That was the day I realized that just because Hollywood didn't spit it out doesn't mean it can't be good!
This is good stuff!
