Based on the 1989 book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, The Order is a crime-thriller helmed by Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders) telling the true story of the 1983 series of crimes committed by a radical group of Neo-Nazis terrorists.
The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival and has since been screened at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and the 20th Zurich Film Festival as the festival’s opening film.
The Order stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron.
Release Date
Directed by Justin Kurzel, The Order opens in select US theaters on December 6, 2024.
Synopsis
In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists frightens communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent, stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but of a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical, charismatic leader, plotting a devastating war against the federal government of the United States.
“On January 6, 2021, nooses were hung in front of the Capitol Building imitating a fictional insurrection from the 1970’s novel The Turner Diaries, the first master plan for domestic terrorism in America,” says Kurzel on the film from Venice Film Festival. “The Order is a manhunt into the depths of that hate, a foreshadowing of a divided America, a warning shot of what has been and what may come.”
Reviews
Jonathan Romney in a Guardian review gave the film a 4/5 score, writing, “While highly effective as docudrama, The Order is also briskly compelling as a straight-down-the-line detective thriller, especially in its action sequences. In the hands of editor Nick Fenton, the robbery sequences – especially a road assault on a Brink’s van – have a clean, propulsive urgency that recalls that of vintage thriller maestros like Michael Mann, William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet.”
Jordan Mintzer in a Hollywood Reporter review also praised the film, writing, “There are few directors nowadays who can shoot scenes of violence with the kind of intensity and verisimilitude that Kurzel provides here. And yet the gunfire in The Order is never gratuitous, but shown to be ingrained in a certain version of American history”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for The Order.