On December 21, 2024, an online neo-Nazi publication, published a movie review providing commentary on the 2024 movie, "The Order." The film, released in theaters on December 6, is based on the 1989 non-fiction book, "The Silent Brotherhood," which describes an FBI agent's pursuit of the white-supremacist terrorist organization, "The Order," and its leader, Robert Jay Matthews.
The movie review was generally positive, calling it "a must-watch for all supporters of the Silent Brotherhood" and stating that it did not "coherently denounce White Nationalism or National Socialism." Instead, he wrote, the film had "a few moments … that will make for fine propaganda."
This report will discuss the movie review published on December 21, 2024.
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Neo-Nazi Describes "The Order" As A "Must-Watch," Despite What The Reviewer Calls Historical Inaccuracies
In his review, the neo-Nazi claims the movie portrays Robert Jay Matthews – founder and leader of white-supremacist terrorist organization The Order – in a positive light, appearing to the audience as "competent, charismatic, and loyal to a fault," while the FBI and local police "come off as bunglers." The author writes that the FBI agent, played by Jude Law, seems like "an alcoholic loser with a terrible family life" who came across the case "through a combination of luck and treachery."
Additionally, the review stated that the movie fails "in its efforts to coherently denounce White Nationalism or National Socialism." The author claims the movie has only "two anti-white 'points' … that White Nationalists are in some way 'selfish' … and that White Nationalists are 'losers,' who simply don't have anything else going on in their lives," which are "disproven in the film itself by RJM, a totally unselfish man with a family life, business interests, etc."
While the reviewer viewed the movie in an overall positive light, he critiqued it for having what he alleges are "fabrications or non-factual events," including the portrayal of Pastor Richard Butler – leader of the National Socialist Aryan Nations. The movie shows Butler "dry snitching" – a term used to describe snitching indirectly by, for example, providing information without names to authorities, on Matthews to the FBI, and the fact that the movie had "a black female Special-Agent-in-charge of a region in the mid 1980s," which the reviewer claimed was "highly dubious at best." The review also took issue with the film's depiction of the Coeur d’Alene police. It claimed the film shows them as "unconcerned with the activities of the Aryan Nations," when, according to the review, "in reality, they were implacably opposed to their presence, and engaged in a decades-long harassment and lawfare campaign against them."
Nonetheless, the author thought the film had "a few moments … that will make for fine propaganda" for the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi movements. He concludes by writing that "despite some kike tomfoolery," the film is a "must-watch for all supporters of the Silent Brotherhood."
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