From Macbeth to True History Of The Kelly Gang to Nitram, Australian director Justin Kurzel has established himself as a dynamic filmmaker, adept at captivating audiences with striking visuals, taut narratives, and a directorial style that is unmistakably intense. His latest project, the true-story-inspired thriller The Order, in which Jude Law portrays an FBI agent entangled in a lethal game of cat-and-mouse with a Neo-Nazi (Nicholas Hoult) in 1980s Washington State, appears to be as gripping as his previous works. Watch the official trailer below:
In a time when political tensions are escalating once more across the Atlantic, Kurzel's new film—which opens with Nicholas Hoult's Aryan Nation leader Bob Mathews proclaiming that "in every revolution, someone has to fire the first shot" and culminates with a blue-collar, white nationalist militia plotting to overthrow the US Government—seems to resonate uncomfortably close to current societal issues in the United States. As we discover, Kurzel's film casts Law—sporting a well-groomed moustache and a convincing Pacific Northwestern accent—as Terry Husk, a federal agent whose investigation into a series of violent robberies and bank heists leads him to suspect that the domestic terrorist cell Aryan Nation is inciting a race war to advance their xenophobic agenda. This suspicion puts him on a direct path to confrontation with Hoult's Mathews, the leader of the terror group The Order, whose "Victory or Death" rhetoric echoes the declarations of certain extreme right-wing figures leading up to this year's US elections.
Kurzel has assembled an impressive ensemble for this film, which, it should be noted, was written by Zach Baylin and draws inspiration from Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s 1989 non-fiction work The Silent Brotherhood. The cast includes Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron. The Order is slated to premiere in US cinemas on December 6, with no confirmed UK release plans as of now. However, with Kurzel at the helm and Law and Hoult facing off in the film, it is reasonable to expect that the movie will reach UK screens shortly thereafter.
