“The Whole Word is watching!”

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a powerful and masterfully made court room drama. This was one of my most anticipated films of the year and I went into this with pretty high expectations. I’m a huge fan of The Social Network so I knew that I would most likely end up loving this film. I was honestly surprised at how fantastic this turned out to be, also I did not expect to give this a 5 star rating at all. The plot is great it’s a dramatic and powerful story. It’s sad that this story is very politically relevant although the events happened over 50 years ago.

I can’t help but love a good court room drama and this is the modern court room drama format at it’s finest. From beginning to end themes/emotions such as loyalty, racism, corruption, and frustration are expertly presented. The pacing is great my eyes where glued to the screen the whole time there wasn’t a single moment where it feels boring or slow mainly because such an engaging story is being told.

The acting is fantastic Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, and Jermey Strong give fantastic performances. Alex Sharp, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella, John Carol Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, and Jason Gordon-Levitt give great performances as well. This film seriously has a cast stacked with talent and passion. Sacha Baron Cohen steals every scene he is in and probably give the best performance of the cast though. The direction is very good from Aaron Sorkin although he is a lot better of a screen writer than he is a director his direction skills are still pretty impressive. Sorkin’s script is truly phenomenal as well.

Sorkin crafts once again a masterpiece of a screenplay. It’s a swift and incredibly intelligent script with tons of one day to be iconic pieces of dialogue. The cinematography is really good but nothing memorable or unique. The editing is phenomenal this film has some of the swiftest and smoothest editing in recent years. In terms of the Oscars I feel this will sweep most of the big categories. This will no doubt get nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this wins Best Picture and Original Screenplay. The ending is an emotional and uplifting ending that leaves you in awe of what you just watched. Overall The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a dramatic and intense film that is definitely the best film of 2020 so far.

(9 out of 10)