ChuckFlixs: 22 JulyBy Chuckie VanHoose October 29, 2018I really enjoyed watching 22 July. For those of you who don’t know the movie is about Norway’s deadliest terrorist in 2011. On that day 77 kids were killed by a extremist terrorist. This is not a spoil because it’s history and in the trailers. I enjoyed watching because I did not know a lot about this event. I remember it happening when I was in high school but that’s about.

To start my positives I’m going to talk about Anders Danielsen Lie who played he terrorist who attacked the kids. I think he did a great job in the role that he was given. Each time he was on the screen I hated him and give off a weird vibe. He gave off a vibe of being evil and creepy. But that was the point of his character that you’re suppose to hate him. It was interesting to see how calm he was and how he spoke with no remorse. Each time he talked about why he did it I was invested to see what would happen next.

Another actor that I liked played one of the kids. The actor’s name is Jonas Strand Gravli who played one of the main people that they focus on. There were several times were he showed great emotion and you truly felt for him and wanted to help him out. I was surprised to learn that this was his first movie. I’ll be looking forward to seeing him in other projects. He gave one of the best performances of the film.

Before I start my negatives I’m going to say this isn’t a movie for everyone. This is a slow paced character driven movie. So if you want a fast paced movie with plain characters then do not watch this movie. At times the movie does feel slow. But I know it’s just because it’s historical you’re limited with pacing. That’s because you can’t add or make stuff up because it would hurt the story. Since I have been watching slower paced movies I was fine with it.

Now I’m going to talk about my negatives and the first is the Prime Minister. I did not like the prime minister at all. I felt like he didn’t care about what happened to 77 kids as long as he kept his power. Another negative I have is about the actors and actress has a relationship with the main character of John Gravli. The first is that I didn’t care about his parents. The mom was slightly better than the dad but I don’t think they had a great chemistry with their new tv son. I wasn’t a big fan of the little brother or the girl who survived and just kept checking on John. The last character I didn’t like was the lawyer of the terrorist. I felt like the actor did a poor job in convincing me he was trying to help his client.

I’m going to have to watch this movie again because if I do then I could see my rating for it changing. It would only change my rating by a point or less in either direction.

Rating- 8.8

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