Films like Red Faction: Origins.

Red Faction: Origins (2011) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / space, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Heavenly Sword (2014) poster
1. Heavenly Sword2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Extinction (2018) poster
2. Extinction2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012) poster
3. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Halo: Nightfall (2014) poster
4. Halo: Nightfall2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014) poster
5. Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012) poster
6. Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness (2012) poster
7. Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Philadelphia Experiment (2012) poster
8. The Philadelphia Experiment2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan (2006) poster
9. Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Son of Batman (2014) poster
10. Son of Batman2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

G-Loc (2020) poster
11. G-Loc2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) poster
12. The Batman vs. Dracula2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Red Faction: Origins’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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