This is a good film about the darkest chapter of post-WWII Norwegian history. The disappointment for me was how the film failed to get into detail about the Norwegian police's many failures while the terrorist attack was progressing.
What I recall from the aftermath while following news reports closely, was, for example:
The police had two guards stationed ashore who had semi-automatic weapons readily available, yet they cowardly refused to intervene while listening to gun shots from Utøya island, and instead called for backup.
Once police enforcements finally arrived, the inflatable boat they used almost sank, and it had to return to the shore to unload some policemen before heading toward the island. I wonder how many kids died only from that mistake.
There were no police helicopters available, apparently because the pilots were all on vacation at the same time.
The tourist camping ashore who had boats, were true heroes and used their boats to pick up kids from the lake who were swimming away from the island to save their lives. Breivik was shooting at swimmers desperately trying to escape.
None of that was in the movie.
And - Breivik called the police asking when they were going to arrive to get him. Yes. The terrorist thought the cops were so slow he called them! Unbelievable.
Nobody was held accountable. No law enforcement officials or policemen had to face any consequences for the lack of response.
Many, many lives could have been spared had Norwegian police been properly on the alert after the Oslo bomb went off.
