Synopsis
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.
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Cast
- Heath LedgerAlex Bernier
- Shannyn SossamonMara Sinclair
- Benno FürmannWilliam Eden
- Mark AddyThomas Garrett
- Peter WellerDriscoll
- Francesco CarneluttiDominic
- Mattia SbragiaApathetic Bishop
- Paola Emilia VillaSister Marie
- Giulia LombardiLittle Girl
- Mirko CasaburoLittle Boy
Recommendations
- 40
TV Guide Magazine
Ledger swirls his cassock glamorously, while Weller is clearly concealing cloven hoofs beneath his; Addy plays the fool and the one-note Sossamon is thoroughly annoying, as fey as Meg Tilly but without Tilly's redeeming faraway air. - 38
Premiere
With its ho-hum hero and lackluster love story, The Order would likely be one big implausible bore if it wasn't for production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic. - 30
Variety
Commits the first cardinal sin of cinematic horror -- it's boring and doesn't have a single scary moment. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Cast adrift with vague, improbable characters and a plot that's at once under-and overcooked, the actors struggle to find a steady tone, lurching from somber to silly as the director tries to figure out what he's doing. - 25
New York Daily News
Certainly a dark spirit is hovering over this inane production. Something has sucked the life out of it. - 25
New York Post
The screenplay is packed with so many hilariously bad lines (it's hard to believe that writer-director Helgeland won an Oscar for co-writing "L.A. Confidential") that the movie would be perfect material for a resurrected version of the TV spoof "Mystery Science Theater." - 20
The New York Times
A murky ecclesiastical horror film, may be the nadir of the subgenre that produced "The Exorcist" (at its high end) and "Stigmata" (at its middle-to-low end). - 20
Film Threat
Godawful mess.
