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The Order
The Order
	American release poster
Directed by	Justin Kurzel
Screenplay by	Zach Baylin
Based on	The Silent Brotherhood; by Kevin Flynn; Gary Gerhardt;
Produced by	Bryan Haas; Stuart Ford; Justin Kurzel; Jude Law;
Starring	Jude Law; Nicholas Hoult; Tye Sheridan; Jurnee Smollett; Alison Oliver; Marc Maron;
Cinematography	Adam Arkapaw
Edited by	Nick Fenton
Music by	Jed Kurzel
Production; companies	AGC Studios; Chasing Epic Pictures; Riff Raff Entertainment; Arcana Studio;
Distributed by	Vertical (United States); Amazon MGM Studios (Canada);
Release dates	August 31, 2024 (Venice); December 6, 2024 (United States);
Running time	116 minutes
Countries	Canada; United States;
Language	English
Box office	$2.1 million

The Order is a 2024 action thriller film directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Zach Baylin, based on the 1989 non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. The film revolves around an FBI agent who goes after a white supremacist terrorist group known as the Order that was active in the United States in the 1980s. It stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron.

The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2024, where it competed for the Golden Lion. It was theatrically released by Vertical in the United States on December 6, 2024, and will later be digitally released internationally on Prime Video.

Plot

In 1983, Bruce Pierce and Gary Yarbrough lure Walter West out into the woods at night under the ruse of a hunting trip, and murder him.

Veteran FBI agent Terry Husk reopens the long-vacant field office in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, looking for an easier caseload after working on investigations of the Ku Klux Klan and La Cosa Nostra, and hoping he can persuade his estranged wife and daughters to reconnect with him.

In Spokane, Washington, Bob Mathews, Pierce, Yarbrough, and David Lane rob a Washington Mutual branch. Mathews then visits his pregnant mistress and later his wife, giving each bags of cash from the robbery.

After reviewing a case file on the Aryan Nation and its founder Richard Butler, Husk introduces himself to the local sheriff's department and meets Deputy Jamie Bowen, who offers to show him to Butler's compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Bowen, who has a mixed-race family, tells Husk that West, now missing for several weeks, is a childhood friend and member of the Aryan Nation who told him the group is counterfeiting money. Bowen suspects that the group is also responsible for a recent synagogue bombing, as well as a string of robberies, including the one in Spokane. Husk meets with fellow FBI agent Joanne Carney, who tells him that a failed bomb was found in a pornography shop in Spokane around the same time as the robbery. West's wife points Husk and Bowen to where Pierce and Yarbrough took him hunting, and discover his body in a shallow grave.

Husk and Bowen visit Butler at his compound, who tells them that he ejected Pierce and Yarbrough from the Aryan Nations for using the group's printing press to counterfeit, and denies knowledge of their subsequent activities. As they leave, Husk notices a book on display in the compound's church, of which a copy was also present at the scene of West's murder. Butler identifies it as the white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries. Afterwards, Butler confronts Mathews about his splinter group's activities. While Butler seeks to work within the law and elect white supremacists to public office, Mathews aims to promote white separatism through domestic terrorism. Butler has his assistant deliver a copy of The Turner Diaries to Bowen's home, hoping to tip off police to Mathews' plan.

Yarbrough bombs a pornographic theater as a distraction for Mathews to lead the robbery of armored truck. Refusing to wait for backup, Husk attempts to stop the robbery but is outnumbered, while Bowen freezes and does not engage, angering Husk.

While elk hunting, Husk realizes he's being watched by Mathews, who he does not yet recognize. They speak, and Mathews subtly threatens him before leaving.

Bowen studies The Turner Diaries, and explains to Husk that he believes the splinter group, now calling itself The Order, is using the novel as a blueprint for overthrowing the federal government and igniting a race war. Mathews sends Pierce to Denver to assassinate Alan Berg, a Jewish talk radio host who frequently spars on-air with antisemites that call into his show. Mathews leads another armored truck robbery in Ukiah, California. A gun dropped at the crime scene leads police to Tony Torres, a new recruit who straw purchased guns for Mathews. Torres turns informant and leads police to a meeting with Mathews. Husk once again does not wait for backup and attempts to arrest Mathews, triggering a shootout; this time Bowen springs into action and provides covering fire. Yarbrough is apprehended, and Mathews shoots Bowen as he makes his escape. Husk abandons the chase to try to save Bowen, but he quickly succumbs to his injuries.

Mathews retreats with Pierce and Lane to his safe house on Whidbey Island, Washington, planning to "declare war" on the federal government and stage a major terrorist attack. Husk and Carney lead an FBI raid on the house. Pierce and Lane try to escape and are immediately apprehended, while Mathews makes a stand, repelling the FBI as they attempt to storm the house. Husk orders the house burned to force Mathews out, and when he fails to emerge, Husk enters alone, hoping to persuade Mathews to surrender. Mathews refuses, and Husk is forced to retreat when the fire detonates a large cache of ammunition.

After the raid, Husk goes hunting. As he trains his rifle on the same elk from earlier, the film ends. A postscript explains that the real-life Mathews perished in the fire and his associates were imprisoned, and that The Turner Diaries has inspired numerous other acts of domestic terror, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

Cast

Jude Law as Terry Husk, an FBI agent
Nicholas Hoult as Bob Mathews
Tye Sheridan as Jamie Bowen, a young local police officer
Jurnee Smollett as Joanne Carney, an FBI agent.^[6]
Alison Oliver as Debbie Mathews, Bob's wife
Marc Maron as Alan Berg, a Jewish radio host
Odessa Young as Zillah Craig, Bob's lover
Huxley Fisher as Clinton Mathews, Bob's son
Sebastian Pigott as Bruce Pierce, a perpetrator
Phillip Forest Lewitski as David Lane, a perpetrator
George Tchortov as Gary Yarbrough
Victor Slezak as Richard Butler, a minister
Philip Granger as Loftlinm, the sheriff
Daniel Doheny as Walter West

Production

In February 2023, it was announced that Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult would star in The Order, directed by Justin Kurzel from a screenplay by Zach Baylin based on The Silent Brotherhood, a 1989 non-fiction book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. Law would also produce with Kurzel, while Baylin would executive produce.^[7] In May 2023, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Odessa Young, Alison Oliver and Marc Maron joined the cast.^[8]^[9]

Filming began in May 2023, in Alberta, Canada.^[8]^[10]

Release

The Order had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2024, where it competed for the Golden Lion.^[11] Amazon Prime Video will distribute in multiple international territories excluding the United States.^[12] In May 2024, Vertical acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film, and will release it on December 6, 2024, in a limited theatrical release.^[13]^[14]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 129 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "A stoic Jude Law and diabolically good Nicholas Hoult turn the tides of history in this grippingly intense thrill ride."^[15] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[16]

Tim Grierson of Screen International wrote that the film was "always skillfully choreographed but never showy".^[17] Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline Hollywood characterized the film as a "sweeping slice of political Americana".^[6] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "a gripping true story of American violence".^[18]