Review – The Order

I don’t know if this has too much plot for a Jean Claude Van Damme movie or too much Jean Claude Van Damme for a plot movie. Either way, it just doesn’t work. Perhaps if they’d started with the story up front (as they’ve done in the past with some of JCVD’s more successful outings) and worked the kickboxing in as they went, things might have flowed a little more smoothly. Instead the movie leads off with stunt-intensive shenanigans and doesn’t try to sprout a story until late in the day (and by that time it’s an unwelcome intrusion). For what it’s worth, the plot fragments might have made a decent movie about a secret, Templar-esque order scheming to blow up the Dome of the Rock and thus jump-start Armageddon. As things worked, though, they didn’t. Mildly amusing