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‘The Order’ Review: Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in an Explosive Crime Drama About the White-Supremacist Cult of the 1980s
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult star in Justin Kurzel's film, which looks at the roots of a movement that has only grown more dangerously relevant.
“The Order,” written by Zach Baylin and directed by Justin Kurzel (whose “Nitram” chillingly dramatized the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania), is at once a supremely intelligent docudrama about the rise of the white-supremacist movement and a riveting crime story. Kurzel works in a classical way, shooting the movie (the cinematography is by Adam Arkapaw) with a dynamic feel for the beauty and desolation of the rural mountain landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and for the moment-to-moment logistics of how amateur criminals move through space. When the FBI, led almost at random into this case (mostly because Husk, the first one onto it, is reeling from a broken marriage and has been assigned to a one-man office in the nothing town of Coeur d’Alene), kicks off its investigation, the Bureau’s tactics, at first, may strike us as a bit sleepy or even borderline inept.
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