The last time we looked in the top 10 of Prime Video was for the catastrophic, and the word is weak, The gardener. Nevertheless, you have to know how to forgive – at the streaming platform, not to director David Charhon who died in our eyes – and we once again wanted to know if Svod’s service had a small recent nugget in reserve. And suddenly, Jude Law with mustache! Because yes, sometimes life is made of simple things and we need to be happy.
More seriously, The Order much more to argue than the facial hair of its main actor. Already, because you can also see its abdominal hair there, but especially because its atmosphere felt good the harshed in the vein of the scenarios of Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Comancheria, Yellowstone…) While approaching a highly political subject in the current deleterious climate: neonazism.
Inspired by a true storythe film takes place in the 80s with a Jude Law, FBI agent transferred to a small American town. A series of robberies and terrorist acts will soon put it on the road to a militia of white supremacists preparing the field for a revolution. The latter is led by Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hoult) a charismatic and intelligent young man whose inaction of his peers ended up pushing him towards extremism.
Why should you see it?
We had fun at the beginning of this article, however, we must take it seriously: yes, the presence of Jude Law is one of the reasons to be tempted by the project. Simply because the actor is able to make his character exist between the lines of a scenario which only sketches him. It is often said that cinema is the art of image and it is enough to see how The actor occupies the space To learn ten times more about the demons that haunt him than via the few elements of dialogues that surround him.
The Order Perhaps seen as two sides of the same room where the two main protagonists are as complementary as they each have the charge on the one hand of the identity of the film. Jude Law’s evocative silences allow the footage to be in line with the harsh thrillers where the tension of the plot is contained in bodies ready to explode at any time. On the other, we find Nicholas Hoult in chief of neonazi militia whose angel’s face and the beautiful word will reflect beyond the borders of the film.
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This is the intelligence of a story that knows how to look at each camp to issue a judgment while revealing the mechanisms of thought. So that what is happening here in the 80s finds an easy echo in events that recently shaken American society and more broadly politicians in the world.
Nevertheless, you should not see the glass more full than it is, because if if The Order To this good intention, the subject is only in the surface, the fault of a scenario which must constantly move forward. So we have the feeling that it would have deserved, perhaps, to change its format for a mini-series. This would have allowed him to not only assume political discourse head -on, but also to make more secondary characters exist confined to the roles of followers of the two ” gurus ». We think in particular of this poor Tye Sheridan, that the scenario confines to a functional role to support the losses of his mentor. Similarly, it would have been appreciable to have more time to deepen certain relationships, such as that of the leader (Hoult) with his father.
The film also works, because Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed), well helped by his brother Jed Kurzel to the composition and Adam Arkapaw in photography, simply manages to sign what was expected of him in the first degree: a polar d’action. It’s beautiful, it smells of powder and we hold our breathing on a few sequences despite a little too easy finish. The spirit of the film summons a lot of past works, True Detective has Heatwithout ever trying to copy. We take advantage of the moments of calm that advance the investigation or the fatal business of the militiathat pure sequences where weapons speak.
The Order Perhaps lacking in a global depth to make an impression in the long term, but in the slew of soulless filling works whose streaming platforms water us, we are delighted to see that not only this kind of more cinematographic proposal exists and, above all, that it meets the deserved successat the right place of the top 10 of the video premium. If it can avoid a Gardener 2…
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