New Order

audience Reviews

, 67% Audience Score
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Excelent movie. It shows that a revolution has consequences... The ones offended usually are mexican leftists that are mad that their beloved revolution is no romanticized.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Clearly it was made to cause controversy but the movie is thankfully very clear eyed and merciless in its depiction of revolutions and their aftermath.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Finally a movie that says the things as they are. I read that the director faced a lot of criticism about the stereotypes and the excessive violence it presented. If we don't want to see the reality, this is doesn't mean it's different. The movie can remind you about medieval era where people were simple instruments for the ruler's. It can remind you as well about the fierce fight for independence. It has been reported that the heroes were not always vertuous. This is definitely not a Hollywood movie, nor even a Bollywood or grand distribution film. This is the reality for the people that are willing to consider it. Did the human nature changed? I don't think so.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    A film utterly lacking focus and imagination that managed to be both chaotic and predictable at the same time. No real character development, just people taking advantage of and brutalizing everyone around them. In his zeal to make the audience uncomfortable, the director perfectly forgot the importance of story. "New Order" is forgettable,
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    GREEN MONDAY The revolution will be bathed in, uh, green. An odd choice, and one that may excite environmentalists until it becomes quite clear that "New Order" is all about class struggle, and not climate change. In his visceral dystopian Mexico City tale, director Michel Franco pushes buttons, many, many buttons. Class discrepancy is on crystal clear display via the glamourous wedding reception opening, interrupted by a former employee's desperate plea of funds to save his dying wife. Greeted with faint empathy, some not so well-disguised contempt, and an unsatisfactory handout, he is briskly and discretely ushered off the premises. When the heart of gold princess bride to be gets a whiff of the events, she bolts the mansion to save the day. The disrupted nuptial festivities is soon the least of the elites' niggling problems, as revolutionaries storm the grounds and matters get nasty mighty quick. Touching similar themes (and cinematic flare) as "Parasite", "New Order" captures the explosive desperation when the haves meet the have-nots on level ground. Digging deep to turn the classes upside down, the focus is on the inherent greed and situational compassion dichotomy lurking in most everyone. It is uncomfortable, disruptive, vicious, anxiety inducing, and bluntly shocking. But unlike "Parasite", there are no moments of levity. No amusing interludes. No time to digest the revolving, evolving struggle. Barely time to take a breath. Many factions are involved, taking turns ruling the day, with corruption and merciless brutality the only common threads. It is a bleak, ninety minute commentary on a world that doesn't seem too far away, creating a provocative, powerful film. The dystopia of fiction past is unfortunately an unsettling present day proposition in many parts of the world. How it plays out is anyone's guess. Franco's is now on the big screen. - hipCRANK
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    Stopped watching after 20 minutes! Nothing happens!
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Es algo que hubiera querido no ver. No por la violencia sino por lo patética que es la peli
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Merciless, unforgiving and striking no one gets out of here unscathed. Strongly directed and edited with no slow point and an entertaining premise, it manages to install uneasiness in a new daily order. Maybe the only problem might be that it sometimes does not feel clear where it was going all along and end on a brutal yet unclear note. But a very effective movie with strong visuals about class struggle.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Clearly it was made to cause controversy but the movie is thankfully very clear eyed and merciless in its depiction of revolutions and their aftermath.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    OMG this movie is hard to watch but it makes you think!