10
This ghost-in-the-Vatican thriller regurgitates enough occult clichés to deserve its own special circle of hell.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
25
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Certainly a dark spirit is hovering over this inane production. Something has sucked the life out of it.
25
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
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."
40
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
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.
30
Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis
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.
38
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.
20
Godawful mess.
20
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
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).
12
A stupendous bore.