The Order [The Sin Eater] ** (2003, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann, Peter Weller) – Classic Movie Review 2127

Heath Ledger comes a cropper as Catholic priest Father Alex Bernier dispatched to the Vatican to probe the death of head of his arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. He tracks the mysterious circumstances down to William Eden, The Sin Eater (Benno Fürmann).

Ledger is miscast in this curiously uninvolving and none too convincing 2003 mix of horror, mystery and thriller, only partly stirred up by  Brian Helgeland, the star’s writer-director on their much more successful A Knight’s Tale.

That movie also co-starred Mark Addy and Shannyn Sossamon, who here play Father Alex’s old comrade Father Thomas and a troubled artist he once performed an exorcism on. Peter Weller also stars as Driscoll.

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