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The Order Is An Unforgettable and Disturbing Crime Drama
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult face off, Heat-style, in Justin Kurzel’s cat-and-mouse epic about the hunt for domestic terrorists.
And it comes with a timely and troubling twist: Based on true events, the film follows the FBI’s pursuit in the mid-1980s of a group of neo-Nazis in the Pacific Northwest who committed a series of daring robberies to finance their activities. Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way: Yes, the movie’s villains spout hateful rhetoric that sounds alarmingly close to things we might hear in mainstream discourse nowadays; such are the times we live in. Law is almost unrecognizable in the role, not because of any physical transformation — all that’s new is an admittedly pretty great mustache — but because he’s so internalized Husk’s damaged psychology that there’s nothing left of the persona we might imagine when we think “Jude Law.” It’s a magnificently explosive performance, especially when contrasted with our mouse, Nicholas Hoult’s Bob Mathews, a methodical heartland fascist-farmer who leads the titular splinter group of neo-Nazis.
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