The Order Trailer: Jude Law Takes On Neo-Nazi Terrorists In True Story Based Justin Kurzel Thriller

From Macbeth to True History Of The Kelly Gang to Nitram, across eras and genres Australian director Justin Kurzel has proven himself to be a firebrand filmmaker, capable of grabbing an audience by the throat and never letting them go through jaw-slackening imagery, tension-filled storytelling, and — to pinch a popular phrase — a seriously locked-in directorial sensibility. And his latest, true story inspired thriller The Order — in which Jude Law plays an FBI agent caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a Neo-Nazi (Nicholas Hoult) in 1980s Washington State — looks every bit as thrillingly tense as the Aussie helmsman's past works. Check out the official trailer below:

At a moment in time where the political temperature is rising once again across the pond, it looks like Kurzel's new movie — which begins with Nicholas Hoult's Aryan Nation leader Bob Mathews declaring that "in every revolution, someone has to fire the first shot" and climaxes with a blue-collar, white nationalist militia plotting to overthrow the US Government — has its finger unnervingly close to the current societal pulse stateside. As we learn here, Kurzel's movie sees Law — sporting a fine moustache and an up-to-snuff Pacific Northwestern accent — star as Terry Husk, a federal agent whose investigation into a series of violent robberies and bank robbings leads him to suspect domestic terrorist cell Aryan Nation are inciting a race war to further their own xenophobic cause. It's a hunch that sets him on a collision course with Hoult's Mathews, the leader of terror group The Order, and a man whose "Victory or Death" rhetoric bears more than a passing resemblance to certain extreme right-wing figures' declarations in the run-up to this year's US elections.

Also among the impressive ensemble Kurzel has brought together for this one — which, it bears noting, was penned by Zach Baylin and is inspired by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s 1989 non-fiction work The Silent Brotherhood — are Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver and Marc Maron. The Order is currently set to hit cinemas in the US on 6 December, with no UK release plans confirmed as of yet. But, with Kurzel at the helm and Law and Hoult going toe-to-toe in the picture, we can be reasonably confident that we'll see the movie over here sometime very soon after.