The Order
2024
***
Director: Justin Kurzel
Cast: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, Marc Maron, Odessa Young, Phillip Forest Lewitski, Matias Lucas, Gary Basaraba
In 1983, FBI agent Terry Husk investigates a series of violent bank and armoured car robberies which point to a neo-Nazi group known as the Order, who have bigger plans in store. Like BlacKkKlansman, this passable crime drama chronicles a real-life case about a white supremacist group who were up to no good. The story is adapted from the 1989 book The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America's Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, but once we're introduced to the formulaically troubled agent and the young and courageous police officer (and his lovely family) who assists him, it's not only obvious where it's all heading but also clear that Zach Baylin has used creative license in his screenplay.
