Confused and disappointing movie

Rating: 3/10 (1 October 2006)

This was a movie that had some potential but ends up all over the place. The main reason is that the Scottish doctor is a weak, pathetic, utterly unlikeable character whose complete lack of any real principles results in chaos all around him, including death for several people such as his girlfriend. When he almost got killed at the end, frankly I was disappointed that he got away.
Also from a historical point of view I learned very little. The actual doctor/dictator relationship was apparently fictional, and since that's the only thing that was really developed in the movie, it is misleading to call it based on actual events.
In particular, the idea that the doctor escapes with the Entebbe hostages was totally stupid and unbelievable. It was a huge mistake to tell half of the Entebbe story, leave the other half for a line of text before the credits, and grossly distort all the facts in order to fit the doctor into it. Ridiculous. A much better movie could have been made just about Entebbe, and just by fitting to the facts (I know a few were in the 70s, but it's time for a new one.)
Also, they didn't mention that Idi Amin was a Muslim. Sure, it's not directly relevant to anything, but you'd think that in a two hour movie the religion of the central character would come up at least once. I bet they left it out to be PC.
The only good things about the movie were the acting of the Idi Amin character, which was consistently excellent, and the settings, film-work and so on. It looked good. Pity it was such a bad movie.