Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Order (2003)

Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Brian Helgeland
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Fox)

The leader of a Catholic order is killed in Rome by "the sin eater", a man who shows up at the moment of death to "eat" the sins of the dying person. Heath Ledger is selected to become the successor to the sin eater, but he doesn't want the job because he is more interested in having sex with his girlfriend. So the girlfriend is murdered and he becomes the sin eater anyway. His first job is to eat the sins of the next pope, who apparently has many. It's all accompanied by deep religious insight, loud sound effects and pointless CGI.

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