HALO 4 Forward Unto Dawn Reaction! | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Marine Veteran Reacts 

For those who don't know, this is the FIRST MOVIE REACTION THAT MADE IT ONTO THE CHANNEL! In the past, I did try movies, but they kept getting blocked, so I put movies on hold. But now, I know how to edit them to get them onto the channel so maybe there will be more movie reactions down the road! Also, I'm not experienced on how to edit movies so if you didn't like the editing, I apologize. I'm still learning and practicing! Hope you enjoyed the video!

This movie is short, but it's a nice prelude to Lasky's character. When you meet him in 4, he greets Chief like he knows him. And the first thought that came to mind is how do they know each other. That's why they made this movie. To close that plot hole.

24:55 Supposedly the Spartans that rescued the cadets are younger than the cadets.

This movie was better then the tv series in my opinion lol

Other Spartans: 087-Kelly, 104-Fred, both core members of 117-John's Blue Team. Someone else mentioned 034-Sam, who was part of the team, but died...probably not long before these events. And the numbers are wibbly, but they were probably somewhere between 14 and 16.

At this point in the halo timeline the spartan are about 15 years old, and they wear mjolnir mark IV that dont have energy shield, they only got energy shield on mark V

Basically, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a Roman General and the Brother-in-Law of Emperor Caligula. Emperor Nero was afraid of Corbulo’s influence and power so he ordered him to take his own life. He did so, stabbing himself in the chest with his own sword, while shouting “Axios!” which means “I am Worthy”. General Black was shaming Hastati Squad for their failure in training and telling them they would never live up to Corbulo’s name if they carried on they way they were, Lasky in particular since he comes from a storied Military family with his mother Colonel Audrey Lasky and his brother Cadmon being particularly famous.

Not only was Chief around 15 at the time He’s still running the Mk IV, meaning no shields

This movie is so good! Master Cheif is canonically 15 years old at this time that's why his voice sounds different. This movie is so fuckin good the show runners should have brought on the creators of this movie.

Fun fact: Here Lasky is around 15 years old, he's barely starting his training, someone who is also around 15 years old are the Spartans. Both John and Lasky are the same age yet John already outranks Lasky and while that would change in the future, Spartans have some kind of special authority even when the captain of the ship is still alive.

Side note: noble 6 was on reach during its fall and was responsible for getting cortana off reach (along side noble team) during the covenant invasion and glassing of reach (although they had been a debate about noble 6 surviving reach since his death was seen in the game) and to some degree if it wasn't for noble 6 master chief wouldn't of met cortana and the UNSC would never of discovered halo (history of noble 6 Has been surrounded by black ink and red tape since he was a black ops agent and lone wolf for ONI)

You mentioned service members that had a red dog tag alerting people of a penicillin allergy and I literally raised my hand and said "right here" lol

I think something a lot of people miss is who is the one who told him bout his brother passing, it was his own mom.

Yeah it is the girl from narnia! She's a good actor!

Highly recommend you check out Halo Legends its a collection of animated short stories that came out around 2009-2010, the stories don't connect to the main story of the Halo games but are an incredible addition to the lore of Halo and a fun media to watch on their own even without knowing anything about Halo

Damn you do have great memory for faces. Also that tidbit of info about the soldier lowering his weapon for lasky was something I’d never noticed. Thank you for that and great reaction!

At 23:24 When Master Chef says he's sorry it's because he really is sorry because he just lost one of his friends from day one Sam 034 by him sacrificing himself to destroy a covenant carrier

Watched this movie with my family years ago, very well made movie despite being low budget

Chief is around 15 lyrs old in this time period

I was really surprised by this "movie" (techically a show) when it came out! Obviously I was aware of the Halo game but I've never played it, and I knew basically nothing about the Halo-verse (?), but I think they did a great job with setting the tone from the start of the movie, and they kept it going to the very end. A lot of the time you'll see these kind of movies trying to "lighten the mood" or like acknowledge the fact it's based on a game, but this movie never does that. It keeps taking itself seriously throughout the whole thing, so the audience does as well.

fun fact this was a web series before they cut it into a movie

This is what Halo should have been on any TV series or Movies. Sure it was low budget but it respected the actual story and presented it so damn well!

Glad you were able to upload this. I'd love to see you react to fall of reach also! Keep up the great work!

Chief had rear-guard so he stayed at attention, ready to cover in case something came behind them - this is why he keeps his helmet on. The others were at rest. So they did. They also likely sympathised a bit with the young cadets since the cadets themselves would be around their age, although a couple years olders.

LETS GOOOO!! THis movie NEEDS more recognition

Hes 7 feet tall in this movie

Trivia: The academy building is a somewhat infamous film set used many times in other media. e.g. Tollan from Stargate.

Chief gave Lasky a part of the hunter's armor. And Chief never takes off his helmet.

grew up watching it and love it and this is true halo and how it should be not the dumb tv show they made

17:39 You're correct. He also plays in the Loki tv show by Disney.

17:28 The sad part is that the "ODSTs dropping is never good" line gets even scarier when the orbiting station most likely knew that it was doomed so the command up there immediately ordered all ODSTs ready to drop to get the hell out of there and get to the ground to make a final stand against the Covenant landing their forces at Corbulo. Probably a good call even though almost everyone lost their lives. Those poor cadets that thought they were ascending to safety and then fell screaming to their deaths. Still gives me chills that they filmed that.

I am glad I found you .... the Spartan 2's were all about 15 years old at this time, having born in 2511. The cadets were all around 18 - 21 years old being in an academy (college students). So yea ... "That's classified" You have a new subscriber!

I remember watching this movie getting filmed

When a movie does better then the series LMAO

Waayÿyyy better than the TV series. Has the actual Blue Team (not the BS silver team in the TV series). And master chiefs suit look better here too (looks rubbery in the TV show)

Well Halo content has a pretty permissive Copyright... also this "movie" was a short that used to premiere on IGN back in the day as a weekly part video IIRC.

I actually got to take a picture with the Warthog used in the movie in 2011 at the GameStop Expo. It was freaking huge. And it was awesome. You mentioned this being released in 2012, but we were aware of it in 2011 due to being a web series promoting the game release, this is why it says released in 2012 because the movie format was released then.

17:44 yes! thats Neil Ellice's first acting gig he did. that Soap in his younger days. my reaction " why does soap looks so familiar" and pass it off as "Pretty boys of Hollywood".

Hellyeah! movie reactions! im all here for it!

17:40 you were questioning why the ODST’s dropped when they did, they weren’t under attack exactly…ODST’s job is to drop behind enemy lines and get the job done. When they dropped on the academy it was assumed they were already under enemy control.

Halo Forward unto Dawn - Master Chief Halo: Series - Master Cheeks If you know you know. it's funny cause it's true...and sad.

Hey warrior humble! How you doing? Glad you watched this halo live action. Best halo adaptation so far. As for master chief, here is played by the same actor who did colossus in x men 3 i guess or was it days of future past i don’t remember quite well You’re right, if this was jimmy rings he would’ve taken his helmet off right after assassinating that elite or sangheili Those aliens with the needle round weapons and energy shield are known as jackals or kig yar frequently you’ll see them in-game being used as vanguard and snipers At this point the human covenant war just started and spartans were just teenagers kelly 087 and fred 104 showed up here with chief, the original members of blue team, you met them again in halo 5 I think you meant halo nightfall at the beginning of the video, i mean you could watch it but it’s not even close to how good this live action was, better watch and react to if you want to halo the fall of reach animated film

Ppl really should consult military advisors 😂

just correcting something you said in the middle of your review, lasky older brother died from an elite along with all the insurgents and his team.

"My Spartans saved the human race."

Halo Forward Unto Dawn, Halo Nightfall and Neil Blomkamp's Halo Landfall short should have been among the movies used for the TV series but sadly not much of canon/lore was used in the TV series. Even Halo, Fall of Reach movie and even some of Halo Legends could have been used but that's not what they did. There are elements of the TV series that work. It's good but there's much that makes no sense at all.

People often don't realise how young the spartan 2s actually are in most of their appearances. Chief was probably younger than 20 during halo 1 and even by the time halo infinite came around he isnt likely much older than 30. The spartan 2s in particular spent a lot of time in Cryo sleep so they are almost always younger than people think they are.

This movie was good and I’ll admit as halo nerd it definitely drew me in.

What an amazing movie to begin with. Got yourself a sub big guy

Honeslty as far as live action halo content goes (besides trailers) this is the best we've gotten. Better than the show and dear god.. Nightfall. It got the tone right and told the story of the then new character Lasky. I really enjoy forwards unto dawn and give it a watch every now and then

21:28 That's sniper fire from the covie sniper rifle in the second game, not the needler. The needler is short range, similar to a shotgun.

Here before its gone and hey its me from the ghost reaction vid

What they are saying is forward, most used in forward to victory. Or such. There are many translations.

cryo is for long term space travel in between galaxies

Better than nothing and it was quite good. Can’t believe they didn’t make halo movies yet.

This was great

At 15:20, when they're asking "what is that thing" I think what they're referring to is the reflection in the visor, which is an Elite wielding a plasma sword. Technically your initial thought wasn't wrong either, the Covenant attack on Circinius IV (the planet the Corbulo military academy is on) happens in 2526, the Spartan II program is made public knowledge in 2547, 21 years later, in order to boost morale. So at this point in time, exceedingly few people have seen Spartan II's in action and indeed they could have also been referring to Spartan Frederic-104.

This movie is 100x better than the show

18:24 that’s not an elite, it’s a jacket sniper

Good reaction, love this movie. Rewatched this so many times over the years just because I love seeing Master Chief in live-action (ignoring the live action paramount TV show cause he shows his helmet).

1000% better then the tv crap

This movie is phenomenal. The people who made this movie should've been the ones to make the TV series cuz that series is dog shit

Unlike the bastard the series is, this one is good.

You do reatio all movies

That TV show is just pissing all OVER HALO lore/canon. Weak writing.

The only good halo movie they have made Now the rest including all the TV shows have been extremely garbage I don't believe they should touch movies or shows given there track record of how garbage it's been

they say sir to all female or male upper ranked people its just a military thing