It's a character - driven military sci - fi action adventure with spaceship battles and a villain carved from the finest cedar. (kotaku.com)
Most importantly, it does a good job of finally bringing huge spaceship battles alive in the Halo universe, at least until we get a videogame that does the same. (wolfsgamingblog.com)
The premise of the plot is very interesting as the previously establishment - orientated characters become revolutionaries and battle against the system they until then saw as sacrosanct, but the family friendly script lacks teeth and it soon degenerates into the usual CGI spaceship battles and running around with laser guns. (rottentomatoes.com)