THE ORDER

The other evening I was wondering whether to watch the award winning ‘Anora’ or a well-reviewed crime thriller, and …. well here we are.

The story is based on real events about an extreme white supremacist group active in the early 1980s, who called themselves the Order.  We follow them as they are building up to committing a major terrorist atrocity.  Disappointingly they are arrested by FBI agents before we get to know what they were planning let alone them getting close to putting it into action.

This is one of the reasons why I was left feeling underwhelmed at the end.

Jude Law plays a veteran FBI agent and Nicholas Hoult plays the leader of The Order.  Both give decent performances but their relationship never catches fire.  At times the film tries to suggest they are opposite sides of the same coin but it feels half-hearted.  

As a thriller it fails to deliver, there being no memorable sequences in terms of excitement or suspense.