Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

vincentlynch-moonoi The main problem with this film was its star -- Heath Ledger. Oh, don't get me wrong, before his death, Ledger had some solid performances under his belt, but this was not one of them. It isn't so much his acting here, which is satisfactory, but rather he is noticeably too young for the role. I suppose that's why they included the facial hair here, although he obviously wasn't much of a beard-grower, so the age thing just doesn't work at all. One of the most often said things about Ledger was that he showed great promise. For the most part, that promise was still to come, and certainly not achieved in this, his 9th credited film.The story is actually quite interesting. Is that there is another way to heaven than adherence to the practices of the Roman Catholic Church? Supposedly, a non-church Sin Eater can remove all taint of sin from a soul just before death, thus allowing ascension into heaven; but within the church, this belief is heretical. Ledger plays a disillusioned priest who is a member of a fictitious religious order which fights demons. His mentor has died in Rome, and while the church is attempting to paint it as a suicide, Ledger does not agree, particularly after he finds strange markings on the corpse. The symbols are that of a Sin Eater. The mentor had been excommunicated, but Ledger still buries him on sacred ground. Another priest of the same order, and a friend of Ledger's, arrives in Rome to help investigate the mentor's death. A female artist Ledger once exorcised, and who has escaped from a mental hospital, comes along for the ride, and at least in this iteration, she seems irrelevant or at least illogical. Peter Weller plays a sympathetic cardinal (or is he?), and gives Ledger a fancy dagger which must be plunged into the Sin Eater while reciting an Aramaic spell...which still must be found. And then, to be young and modern (after all, it's a Ledger film), they wander through a nightclub and an underground setting where the 'Black Pope' rules. Naturally, demons attack every once in a while, and to be honest, it gets kind of silly...though the special effects are quite good. Ledger meets the Sin Eater, who is a pretty interesting fellow who dates back to the time during with St. Peter's Cathedral was being built. As a result of their meeting, Ledger ends up having sex with the young woman...naturally, it's the hip Ledger's film. It turns out that the Sin Eater wants Ledger to take his place...and he won't take no for an answer. So, what to do? Kill the Sin Easter! Who wins? Ah, that is the question.In a sense, this film has a split personality...another reason it doesn't quite work. The movie was filmed in Italy, Paris, and New York, so the settings seem quite authentic and rather spectacular in many cases. Certain scenes -- such as when the Sin Eater is telling his background -- are quite spectacular. But then, since this is a Ledger film, there has to be a sex angle and pop movie-making, as well. So it kind of falls in between, and we are left a bit unsatisfied, as the ratings on IMDb show.Heath Ledger is "okay" here, but it sometimes seems as if he once attended the Mumbling School Of Acting. The better performance is by the Sin Eater -- Benno Fürmann, a German actor. Mark Addy does a nice job as the fellow priest.I wouldn't say not to watch this film, but it's barely meets the threshold of holding your serious attention.

MBunge In 2001, writer/director Brian Helgeland teamed up with actors Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon and Brian Addy to create A Knight's Tale, a deliberately anachronistic story that reimagined the world of medieval jousting as the traditional underdog sports film. It was a decent flick and did well enough at the box office so that a couple of years later, the band got back together to make The Order. This movie is not at all decent and bombed at the box office. It inartfully mixes inappropriate solemnity, moral pretension, unfunny comedy, bad special effects and terrible plotting, then weirdly tries to pass that noxious brew off as the origin tale of a super-hero.Alex (Heath Ledger) is a young priest who is sent to Rome to investigate the apparent suicide of an excommunicated priest who belonged to the same religious order as Alex. He's joined on this mission by fat comic relief in the form of another priest (Brian Addy) and a beautiful young woman named Mara (Shannyn Sossamon), who fell in love with Alex before shooting him while he performed an exorcism on her. Oh, and she just escaped from a mental institution. Now, you'd think that going to the trouble of giving Mara that overly complicated a history would at least mean the character was going to play a significant part in this film. You'd be wrong on that, because all Sossamon gets to do is look pretty and flash some side boob action.Upon getting to Rome, Alex has to deal with some random demon children who don't appear to have anything to do with this story. After some sitting around and talking, he uncovers the truth behind the death of the excommunicated priest before the movie is half over. The rest of the film then deals with whether or not Alex will become a living, Catholicized version of the "Get Out of Jail Free" card from Monopoly.Alex meets William Eden (Benno Furman), who is a "sin eater". He can provide entry into Heaven for dying people outside the grace of the Church, which is a concept writer/director Helgeland never seems to have a firm grip on. On the one hand, the sin eater is presented as someone offering salvation to those unjustly denied absolution by Church authorities. On the other hand, William also lets genuinely evil sinners into Paradise for nothing more than money. Those two behaviors are diametrically opposed in every possible moral and ethical way, yet Helgeland never acknowledges or attempts to reconcile that.The Order wraps up with a truly stupid scheme to get Alex to become the next sin eater, which results in a murderer going to Heaven, another bad guy getting a concave chest and Alex walking toward the camera in slow motion while saying "I am the sin eater" like he was saying "I am Batman".This is one of those awful movies where it seems like everyone involved thought they were doing a different type of film. Ledger acts like he's in some sort of serious horror flick like The Exorcist. Addy apparently thought he was doing a Catholic homage to Ghostbusters. Sossamon, of all things, comes off like a character from the Winona Ryder/Angelina Jolie film Girl Interrupted. And Helgeland couldn't make up his mind about anything. At one moment, he's trying to pull off his own version of The Da Vinci Code. At another moment, he's veering close to something like Hellboy. There's even a stretch where Helgeland bizarrely seems to pay homage to the original Highlander movie. No, I'm not kidding about that.I don't know what happened to these folks between A Knight's Tale and The Order. Maybe they all got so drunk and so high after the success of the first film that they suffered brain damage and forgot how to make a good movie. All I do know is their second try stinks.

marc-1025 I bought this movie on DVD mainly due to the fact that it was only £3 and the synopsis sounded interesting. I looked up the movie on IMDb and after reading the reviews by others, I was not looking forward to watching it.However, I did watch the movie and was pleasantly surprised. The plot is strong, the acting is good and the direction is just right for the mood of the film. The atmosphere does meander between dark and light hearted, sometimes during the course of a single sentence, but it kind of works.Heath Ledger gives a solid performance especially considering that his character has many depths and motivations which sometimes clash.My only criticism would be that a lot of ground is covered story wise and there are many scenes and sub plots which could have been developed more given and extra few hours. There were occasions where I would be watching an important scene whilst pondering the previous one. Not necessarily a bad thing.All in all I feel this movie is under rated. It does require some concentration, and I would pause it if you have to leave the room, but it is enjoyable and intriguing and at the end I felt it was 98 minutes well spent.

lilbit03 I had read a lot of comments about the quality of this movie and found them to be very mixed. However, I have always loved Heath Ledger and his movies. Because of this, I had always wanted to watch this film. So, when I found the movie, shortly after Heath Ledger's death, I purchased it out of curiosity. I actually really enjoyed it and thought that people were too harsh on the film. It tries to put something together that is unique and offers viewers an experience worth seeing. Heath's acting is incredible, as always, and to me holds the film up. If it had been anyone else in the role, it would not be good at all! I did find the twist to be fairly entertaining, and it did keep me interested in the movie. There are also some creepy moments that push you to keep watching. It manages to keep the viewer at the edge of there seat. It was not what I expected, but I really enjoyed this underrated movie. In all, if you are a fan of Ledger's the movie is worth seeing!