The quick of it: Red Faction: Origins TV movie that aired on the Syfy channel, was better than most of the Syfy B-movie projects we see on the net, and interestingly enough, better than some bigger budget video game movies we’ve seen on the big screen.
Red Faction: Origins, directed by Michael Nankin (CSI, BSG) opens with a great little run down on the immediate past of the franchise, showing us the first battle where Alec Mason (Robert Patrick) led the Red Faction rebels to take Mars back from the EDF (Earth Defense Force). We are then shown that Alec is a bit of a drunk, on the downward slide from hero to zero.
He starts a bar brawl that is ended by being arrested by his own son, Jake Mason (Brian J. Smith), who is now a officer of Red Faction. Jake isn’t very enthused by how his dad has spiraled downward in his life.
We later follow Jake and his squad as they head into hostile territory to investigate the wreckage of a warship that recently fell out of orbit. This ship was destroyed in the first war, but as his team gets to the ship, they find marauders in white suits, the White Faction so to speak, raiding it. Jake attacks one of them, but it turns out that he thinks it’s his sister Lyra (Tamzin Merchant), who he thought has been dead a long time.
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