Jude Law plays Terry Husk, an FBI agent who is investigating a murder and a series of large bank robberies along the American Northwest. As he digs in, he begins to suspect it’s all tied to a racist terrorist organization that may be planning a big move.

Based on actual events, and just as relevant today as it was in the mid-80s when it happened, Kurzel delivers a brooding procedural thriller with gorgeous location backdrops.

As Husk digs into what he hopes will be a new, quieter life away from New York, and possibly a chance to win his family back, he gets caught up in a case riddled with hate as his case takes him right to the aryan nation, and a splinter group led by Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hoult).

Working with a local police officer, Jamie Bowen (Tye Sheridan), Husk is consumed with the case, and Bowen quickly finds himself pulled in as well.

Matthews’ crimes are becoming bolder, and seem to be building towards something, and it will fall to Husk and Jamie to find a way to stop him, even if it comes at an extreme personal cost.

A dark brooding thriller of a procedural, The Order’s wilderness and landscapes (read as gorgeous British Columbia) loom over the human drama as Husk and Matthews race towards each other in a collision course, one that can’t end well for either of them.

There’s a sense of an almost broken-down man in Law’s Husk, a man so consumed by his job and his need to do what’s right that it is taken all he has to give. Bowen represents everything he could have, a home, a family, but the case… The case keeps pulling them deeper.

Based on the book, The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, The Order is a fairly standard investigative thriller, elevated by the locations and a layered performance by Law, and the knowledge that it’s based on an actual event.

The Order screens once more, Friday, at TIFF, before preparing for a commercial release.