The Order (2003)
7 %
Reviews Counted: 55 Fresh: 4 Rotten:51 Average Rating: 2.9/10
Consensus:
A religious thriller that's more lethargic and silly than thrilling.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 5, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $7,536,577
Synopsis: For centuries, a secret Order has existed within the Church. Following a series of unexplained murders, a renegade priest (Heath Ledger) begins an investigation that hurls him into a maelstrom of unimaginable evil, murder and the knowledge that there is a fate worse than death. The... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Benno Furmann, Peter Weller
Director: Brian Helgeland
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Producer: Brian Helgeland, Craig Baumgarten
Composer: David Torn
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Producer: Brian Helgeland, Craig Baumgarten
Composer: David Torn
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This has to be one of the most inconsequential films dealing with religion ever made.
06/26/05
... it has a curious disorder, one that makes it both interesting and pallid.
09/20/04
It's preposterous, silly rather than frightening, and the performances and characterizations have a pot-boiler feel.
03/19/04
Frequently descends into unintentional hilarity, nervous camp, and eventually exasperation.
02/24/04
As the movie’s promotion intimates, ‘There is a fate worse than death,’ and you got it – it’s sitting through this movie.
02/09/04
A miserably dark and sluggish picture to endure. Helgeland and his stars have hopefully observed last rites on this and moved on to bigger and (especially) better things.
12/15/03
...the movie makes little sense even for a guy more than willing to suspend his disbelief, as I was.
12/05/03
From the casting to the plot to the monologues that come off sounding like SNL jokes, everything here is just plain sloppy.
09/11/03
The film’s failed gothic look is just ugly, so forcibly dank that important details, like which characters are in a certain scene, sometimes get lost.
09/11/03
In what church is Heath Ledger a priest? And who are the nuns - Heather Graham and Tara Reid?
09/11/03
All the fine cinematography can't hide the sad fact that the second half of the film delivers none of the shocks and starts required of atmospheric horror.
09/11/03
The Order is scuzzy and lazy, such a muddle that no one really need be offended. Actually, no one need even bother with it all. That’s why I’m being paid in this space, to spare you the temptation.
09/11/03
Most bad horror movies at least offer the compensation of being unconsciously funny. The Order just makes you wish you were unconscious.
09/11/03
The ABC's of the plot are nearly mystifying, and once you have everything figured out you'll realize that the end result was hardly worth all the effort.
09/11/03
There are scenes where you think the bulb has gone out in the projector.
09/10/03
The picture is so lethargic that I began to think of watching it as a form of atonement.
09/10/03
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