THE ORDER Movie Review | Jude Law | Nicholas Hoult | Justin Kurzel

[@craigbarr2003]

That's the thing, we used to get these films, like THE ORDER and JUROR #2 all the time in the 90's. But that's 30 years ago. They don't really happen much at all anymore in the theatrical space, so when they do and are well made, they're a breath of fresh movie air to filmgoers. If only they were released and marketed properly (not that they know how to do that anymore).

[@OldBluesChapterandVerse]

I was getting on here to say exactly this. Christy makes a great point when she says that while it may have been done before, it's not done much at all these days -- which, as you point, makes it feel new. Or, for those of us of a certain age, like a throwback to an age of filmmaking we desperately miss.

[@ToddLampe]

Hi, believe it or not, when I was just out of college I lived in Denver in 1984. I took a job at a pizza place, call "Pizza Bug". On the night of June 18, 1984, I made a delivery, not far from the restaurant on Adams Street. When I was handing the pizza to the recipient, I heard gunshots to my right and ran to my car, going away in the opposite direction because my car look like a cop car. I drove around for about 10 minutes to recover and when I got back, the restaurant manager was shocked and relieved to find out that it wasn't me that was shot! Because the address was very close, two doors down from the apartment of Alan Berg. A story had come on the radio right as I walked in and I heard about it. It made national news. I didn't realize "The Order" was what the movie was about because The Order had been processed and found guilty then sent to jail for quite a while. It was too dangerous for me to keep working there and I quit two days later. So when I heard you both mention it I got the chills!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

That's wild!

[@brittyn]

It’s a true story I wasn’t aware of, so I saw value in it. Acting, score, and cinematography were also excellent.

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

I think Alonso's response is from someone who has seen a lot of movies, but the general public hasn't seen them.

[@VivaciousOM]

I saw The Order because it was based on a true story that I didn’t know about. I thought it was good. I agree with Christie’s points including about appearance of Hoult in this movie. Early Tom Cruise. I was happy to see Jude Law successfully pull off this role. He and Hugh Grant can be appreciated as fine actors rather than good looking rom com movie stars.

[@swray2112]

“Been there, done that” isn’t a flaw, almost all art is taking pieces of what’s been done before. This is the type of movie that those who mourn the slow death of cinema should celebrate for existing in this franchise/existing IP world. Oh, and this is not arthouse, if it is, cinema is in its death rattle phase.

[@songandance]

I agree with you. Anyone who listens to platforms like this (and I’m not condemning this kind of outlet) should take it with a grain of salt. The slow death of cinema, and theater for that matter, could be in the hands of critics. I’m one of those people who watch movies, knowing that it has an amount of “Hollywood-ness”, to inspire me to deep dive on the subject matter.

[@wallstreetwarrior100]

Read the studio was afraid to promote this movie because they didn't want to offend people during the election 🤦‍♂️

[@WarlordRising]

Talk Radio was one of Oliver Stone's last great films, and the stage play it was based on was inspired by this story. Some will compare Berg to Howard Stern. Talk Radio was certainly a hybrid of the two, but Berg was more of an intellect poking at the hornet's nest than Stern was. It's not surprising how accurate it reflects the psychosphere of podcasting these days.

[@stinkanor]

for me this was more of a "they don't make them like that anymore " (complimentary) than a "been there, done that," and I was definitely glad I saw it.

[@tlovehater]

Hopefully it'll be the former 🤞

[@flyry23]

Alonzo hardly let Christy speak on this one

[@adamJKpunk]

So I walked into this movie last week sight unseen. My friend and I thought it was a regular cop movie and ohhhhhhhh boy, I had NO idea what we were in for. My friend googled it after the movie and it turned out that it’s real ?!?! 😩😩😩

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Yep, the book and everything.

[@brianng8350]

I have to disagree with Alonso on this one - big time. I love this movie - probably within my top ten of 2024. This is in the spirit of great movies like Untouchable or Heat - the cops and robbers playing cat and mouse games. Does it have to be different/original or groundbreaking? I don’t think so. It’s just a solidly made movie/storytelling . It is a good reminder of good and evil and the many shades in between in this big US of A. And I’ve never hear Jude Law without his accent; it did not think he could do it - kind of like Hugh Grant. So, he really surprised me.

[@Stefarooh]

Nicholas Hoult is really having a bumper year with this movie, Nosferatu and Juror #2. It's about time he steps in leading man roles because he is really good and he has that attractive star quality that makes a movie star. Kind of reminds me of a young Tom Cruise except he is already in his mid thirties.

[@wilfreddale764]

I love Nicolas hoult but I feel like he still has long way to go.

[@podoherty2]

I hear what Alonso is saying but it sounds like a good one to go see during the post Xmas doldrum days

[@paradisecity0406able]

I just saw that Christy named 'Anora' the best picture of 2024

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Well the list is in alphabetical order, so Anora goes first.

[@podoherty2]

@@paradisecity0406able A happy coincidence

[@rebekahp4083]

I didn’t get a chance to see this one at the festivals this year, but a couple of my friends did and…..for such a compelling topic they didn’t have terribly much to say about it. I’ll probably still play catch up with it since I like the cast and find the subject to be super interesting.

[@VictorDiGiovanni]

Nicholas Hoult has been on every movie this year.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

This is his 2nd of 3!

[@timothyw98]

Next stop Nosferatu

[@claudiogallucci563]

Movie was great Jude Laws best role and NIcolas Hought was AMAZING

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Nicholas Hoult’s best work of the year.

[@kellyrob4296]

Christy, it’s so funny you said Nicholas Hoult reminded you of Tom Cruise! I watched Juror #2 a couple of days ago and Hoult kept reminding me of someone with his long, pensive looks and I finally realized it was Tom Cruise! IDK which TC era, maybe The Firm or Top Gun, but there was something about his face! Great minds think alike!!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

It's definitely in there somewhere.

[@AntsMovies]

Ooo I loved this movie it felt very Taylor Sheridan to me

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Exactly. It's very Hell or High Water.

[@danielbarrero2815]

I loved this movie.

[@wilfreddale764]

Nicolas Hoult’s hair resembles that of a young Tony Stonem. 😉

[@GregBrunswick-fv3qn]

Loved it, agree with you Christy on this

[@musicmann1967]

I'll probably go see this one. I have a ticket for "Interstellar" at a fake IMAX, but maybe I'll cancel that and check this out. It feels like kind of a small-ish release so it might not be around very long in theaters

[@BreakfastAllDay]

You're probably right!

[@samruhland848]

Since it’s based on a true story I cut it the slack for feeling like I watched it before. The characters were original to me in the sense that they were their own person. I thought the action and the atmosphere were good personally. I’d give it 4.5 out of 5 stars. I watched some videos about the real thing after the movie and the movie got a lot of things right

[@commandZee]

Besides this film it seems like everything playing at the major cineplexes are misplaced summer movies. The films I actually want to see are only being shown at a few arthouse theaters or aren't being released until the Christmas Day.

[@angelthman1659]

Hoult looked like George Harrison with the mop top.

[@thefilmseeker]

Have you guys seen Noémie Merlant's The Balconettes yet at any festivals? Caught it twice and it's a blast; I'm sure Alonso will love it with all of its blatant invocations of 80s Almodóvar.

[@Solo_Sessums]

Now Jud Law is in a star wars show, but i don't know how to segway into an ORDER 66 joke.

[@danielbarrero2815]

Great review

[@jasonraschen1109]

So behind on films that I'll most likely check this out when it hits Prime.

[@Wilson.katie815]

Can’t most movies be compared to something in the genre of the movie to something already seen? This is playing by me and now I want to see it. Now that we’re back to 20 degrees in my area, now’s a good time to see a movie 😊

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Yes, go check it out!

[@Wilson.katie815]

@ I will. I love your channel. Christy I was reading your reviews, old school, in the paper way back. Your AP reviews were carried in my local paper. You and Claudia Puig were my go to critics. Love that you have this channel.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

@@Wilson.katie815 Oh wow, that was a while ago. Thanks so much, Katie!

[@Tchelitchew.]

I actually really miss those 90s thrillers made for an adult audiences that Alonso is referring to. The final climax was amazingly intense. The only part I didn't like was Jurnee Smollet: her character felt like a total cliché.

[@blackkcinamacritic]

It was limited release this weekend but hopefully it opens wide

[@theblondebomber]

I’ve watched your channel for a while and could tell Alonzo felt it was pretty mid (surprising to me because it looks really intense and smart) so I was prepared for Alonzo to give it a low 7 or high 6 and almost fell out of my chair when he buried it w a 5.5 😮

[@KMHill]

Alonzo ought to understand that his complaint about the movie feeling familiar is something that is inevitable as we age and should not be held against a well-mounted recounting of those familiar themes. There are a few generations behind us now who have not seen all those previous movies that may make the material feel also-ran to us. And given the reluctance of many among the younger generations to dig deep into the back catalog, they are not likely to ever discover those previous tellings of these issues. While the complaint is valid, it is not in my opinion a reason to denigrate a new re-telling.

[@sonofyah_chosen1950]

I thought he looked like a young Tom cruise as well

[@tommytam3208]

May be Donald Trump should see this movie!

[@kyleb8655]

Yeah I feel like is seen this movie at least 17 times.

[@jasoncarrick5461]

32.7K !! I have to pass on this I think, when you two are this far apart and I didn't have much interest anyway I have to just do a long overdue rewatch of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" instead. Lol.

[@angelthman1659]

Sorry Christy, I'm with Alonso on this one. The problem is that this is predictable. It's a cat and mouse game, and we know early on how it's going to end. The middle is filler. Plus the movie feels like a cop TV show.

[@ekuhn44]

Alonso you’ve seen 20,000 movies, at some point you saying “seen it before” to movies that are really well made (this and Nosferatu in the past week) stops being a valid criticism

[@devonellesse]

Agree with Alonso. After BLACKKKLANSMAN this feels like a johnycomelately

[@susanalfieri4487]

I thought BLACKKKLANSMAN was really, really good. The tension in that movie seriously ignited my anxiety, but I think that's what it was trying to do. Going undercover in a dangerous space is very dicey. Your safety--and, truly, your life--balances on a knife's edge. And if you're caught, you will die in a horrific way (likely full of suffering). So, yeah, high tension...

[@VivaciousOM]

September 5 is a movie that captures the time period and seems like it was made then (1972). That made it even more realistic. I was shaken by it. I lived that event and had a much stronger reaction than expected.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Directed by a Aussie. `Straya

[@cashlasurf5004]

Defeat never!!! Victory forever!!!

[@morganvon5664]

So ridiculous to conflate Jan. 6 with these kooks. But I very much doubt there is a single movie critic that voted for Trump or for any Republican, ever.

[@brittyn]

Did you see the movie?! They mention it at the end. It’s not just the critics.

[@mikeymacaque]

Facts don’t care about your feelings

[@andynowicki4532]

Agreed, the Jan 6 comparison is incredibly dumb. Good movie other than that, tho

[@brittyn]

@@andynowicki4532 what’s dumb about it? I happened to see a sociology professor present last week on hate crimes and extremism, and the Turner Diaries came up, along with The Order (amongst others). You know what was also mentioned?? January 6! There IS a correlation, whether you like it or not.

[@andynowicki4532]

@brittyn ah, a *sociology* professor, reliable fount of knowledge and surely not at all biased, sociology being the very hardest of sciences after all... Jan 6 was self-evidently a Fed-sponsored psyop, and most "white supremacists" are feds working undercover.