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09/11/03
The Order (2003)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:5
Rotten:51
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: A religious thriller that's more lethargic and silly than thrilling.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... [More]
Starring: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Benno Furmann
Director: Brian Helgeland
Reviews for The Order
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
There are no surprises here, just a movie that limps along like a wounded horse. At some point, you simply want to put the poor thing out of its misery.
09/08/03
[Helgeland] beats up on the Catholic Church with the same brainless zeal and pointless histrionics as such Grade F noisemakers as Lost Souls and Stigmata.
09/08/03
Annoyingly boring and nonsensical would-be paranormal thriller.
09/08/03
Devout Catholics will be appalled; everyone else will be asleep.
02/28/07
Schlock that could and should have been better.
09/08/03
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
"The Order" is a halfhearted "supernatural thriller"%u2014interpret as not an actual "horror" movie...
06/12/09
It's long on atmosphere and whispered moments of creepy discovery.
05/07/09
It's a horror movie that isn't frightening and a thriller that isn't thrilling.
09/08/03
A severely muddled, lethargically paced religion-based thriller without any thrills or even vague signs of entertainment value.
09/05/03
...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 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
Alternately laughable and sleep-inducing, The Order shows that the team behind A Knight's Tale was not just a one-trick pony. They have plenty more bad movies up their sleeves.
09/07/03
The picture is so lethargic that I began to think of watching it as a form of atonement.
09/10/03
A movie with no place to go, and no idea how to get to where it's not going.
09/06/03
It's preposterous, silly rather than frightening, and the performances and characterizations have a pot-boiler feel.
03/19/04
Give me Aramaic runes and whispered chanting on the soundtrack, and I'm pretty much yours for the evening.
09/05/03
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