Besides his brief, failed attempt at blockbuster filmmaking with Assassin’s Creed, Justin Kurzel has been a director on a roll. True-crime stories such as Snowtown, The True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram are where he’s been at his best, and that bodes well for The Order. The crime flick stars Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, the latter as a member of the notorious real-life white supremacist group that terrorized the U.S. Pacific Northwest between 1983-1984.
The film has a script by Zach Baylin, his third screenplay this year following Bob Marley: One Love and The Crow. He was an Oscar nominee for his King Richard screenplay a couple of years ago. Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Odessa Young, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron round out the cast.
Hoult plays notorious Nazi activist and white supremacist leader Robert Matthews, who declared war against the U.S. federal government. Law plays the FBI agent tasked with bringing him down.
SYNOPSIS: A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.
Vertical releases The Order in theaters on December 6th. I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but this is another one you can see very early at next week’s Middleburg Film Festival if you live locally.
