Good acting, interesting fictional story, terrible camera work

Rating: 5/10 (21 June 2015)

Idi Amin was an interesting, even intriguing, real-life character, but whether this movie portrays him well, I don't know.
But the focus was too much on a fictional character, a weak and uninteresting character, the, as I said, fictional Dr. Nicholas Garrigan.
Garrigan actually distracted and detracted from the story, which involved world-shaking upheaval in Uganda, revolution and murder and cross-border turmoil.
Sorry, but even the portrayal was uninteresting. I could see nothing attractive about the actor or the character.
What really damaged the movie, though, was the wobbly camera work. "Law and Order" on TV might be the source of so much hand-held motion picture photography, but it became a cliché there and also there distracted from the story.
In "Last King," the camera often simply lost the subject, as if the camera operator fell asleep, or his fingers got slippery from sweat.
The director and camera operator really should be ashamed.
And I guess I disliked the movie more because of the ugliness of the subject and the way it was presented. And I had been wanting for years to watch it. What a disappointment.