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Obviously it's very hard to make a movie about an attack like this. There's a very fine line to be walked between respectful treatment of the victims, survivors and their families, an accurate description of events and the lessons to be learned. The world needs to have this kind of movies, but this one isn't it.

The dramatisation of the attack itself focuses too much on the attacker, it's too long as well, since the movie really wants to show the aftermath for one of the victims. I can't imagine many of the people involved would agree to how this movie was made. And even after the attack the movie has way too much screen time for the murderer.

It's a good idea to not even name the terrorists, to not show their faces in the media, to punish them with silence like they did in New Zealand. Of course this didn't happen in Norway but the movie didn't need to give us that much exposure to him. He's a far right extremist, there's nothing really interesting about those people once they do start killing, their hateful ideology doesn't need explanation or spreading. Portraying him as a faceless non-human would do more justice.

If you want to make a movie about the guy who killed so many children, show how he radicalised himself in a swamp of old and new propaganda, touch on the continuities that exist since the last 80 or so years, show the networks and platforms that these people use to drag each other into their insane parallel universe. Maybe even show how society fails to reach these people once they are on their trajectory towards terror. Then end the movie before the attack starts.

The one thing this movie got right is that people should be more distrustful towards police officers, because that is the central exploit the monster used to get on the island in the first place: A uniform and people's trust in authorities.