Saturday, June 26, 2004

"The Order" (2003)

"The Order" is the 'religious horror film' genre's equivalent of 'gigli' (Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez) -- so excruciatingly boring, so appallingly bad, you'll either be entertained by the fact that, just when it can't get any worse, IT DOES . . . or wind up flogging yourself for having wasted two perfectly good hours of your life.

It's hard to believe that Brian Helgeland, who wrote the screenplay for "Mystic River" and adapted "L.A. Confidential", could produce something so utterly ridiculous, so profoundly bad in every possible way.

May God forgive him for this aesthetic sacrilege.

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