Half-Life (2000)

Half Life is a 2000 live-action film based on the 1998 game. It came out on June 11th, 2000. It is the 1st movie of the Video Game Cinematic Universe

Characters
Donald Sutherland, Tom Kenny, James Earl Jones & David Hayter alongside some other people provided additional voices.

Plot

 * It's October 11th, 2008, and we are in the shoes of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical psychist, working at Black Mesa Facility. As Gordon takes the tram to the facility, he comes across a security guard, Barney Calhoun, banging on the door.
 * Running Gag: Gordon has the ability to foreshadow events into the future.
 * He arrives in the Anomalous Materials Laboratory, his workplace within Black Mesa, where he encounters a guard dealing with a broken computer, and later changes into his H.E.V Suit
 * After Gordon suits up, 2 scientists named Gina Cross & Colette Green hand him a test sample labeled GG-38833.
 * Gordon loads the sample into the Anti-Mass Spectrometer (A.M.S), but unfortunately, it opens up a dimensional tear between a parallel universe named "Xen". The force of the explosion bathes Gordon in white, and knocks him down unconscious. He later wakes up in Xen, briefly making contact with a orb, and returning back to his universe.
 * When returning to Earth, he finds the entire room containing the Anti-Mass Spectrometer and the rooms bordering it to have completely destroyed & leaving a crater where the A.M.S once stood, with a massive wormhole at it's ground zero. With a shocked look on his face, he goes to the reception to find everyone killed.
 * It turns out that GG-38833 had a Xen crystal on it, causing a Resonance Cascade, that tore the space-time continuum fabric between Xen & Earth, causing a lot of panic.
 * He fights through Black Mesa, fighting Xen Headcrabs, Vortigaunts, Dragonflies & Zombies. He also encounters the H.E.C.U, sent there to clean up the facility from both Aliens & Staff, and close the Cascade with an Atomic bomb.
 * He encounters Eli & the Labrets team, an internal group of scientists in Black Mesa who might know how to stop it. His plan is to launch a cruise missile to weaken it, and sent Gordon to it and find & kill/destroy what it's causing.
 * He makes the cruise missile launch, yet running into a bunch of mercenaries, who are here to kill everyone, and claim the crystals and use them to fund their cause.
 * Before he is able to report to Eli, he is shot with tranquilizer darts by H.E.C.U operatives, and thrown to a trash compactor, with only his HEV suit & his crowbar. He is able to report back to Eli, who readies him to enter the portal. He says a tearful goodbye, getting ready to face the possibility of never seeing Gordon ever again. After sending Gordon to the portal, they all enter a elevator and leave on an S.U.V.
 * Gordon sees & faces off several horrifying creatures while in Xen, including a Genesis, a massive spider-locust hybrid that spews acid. He finally sees the root of the problem, the Nihilanth, the main controller of the Xen. He weakens it so much by hitting it on it's weak spot with his crowbar, before turning face-to-face, tossing a grenade and shooting it with his pistol.
 * After taking down Nihilanth, everything goes black, and he awakens to the sight of G-Man. He claims Gordon has yet another job to do, and tells him to enter a portal. Entering the portal, he awakens at the front gate of Black Mesa. He stands up as the facility is destroyed. After walking for hours, he hitches sees a Black Mesa S.U.V, and hitches a ride with them.
 * Post-Credits Scene: Gordon finds a retro console hooked up to a TV, with a weird CD disc reading "Are you Ready?" on the floor. He puts it on the CD tray, and presses power, just as the screen goes black.

Trivia

 * Half-Life (2000) is the 1st movie in the Video Game Cinematic Universe.
 * Although it was set in New Mexico, the movie was actually filmed in the around Cedar City & the inside of Black Mesa in their studio in Oakland. In fact, in an scene in the "How Half-Life was Fabricated" in the Half-Life: The Great Legacy Blu-Ray that came out on June 11th, 2010, several props used for Counter Strike, another VGCU film.
 * Matt Damon was offered for the role of Gordon Freeman, but he turned it down.