Another whitewashing...

Rating: 1/10 (5 August 2007)

Film-making, when it's undertaken with "clean hands," can be as moving and vital as the reality it reflects. When it's done with questionable motives, it reeks. I first read about Idi Amin Dada in the mid-1970's. It was, to say the least, an appalling revelation. Amin was- sad to say- the quintessential politician. In one account, a cruise ship was prevented from continuing downriver because crocodiles had eaten their fill of the bodies clogging the mouth of the river and the excess had caused an importune blockage. Drat the luck. And with international correspondents on board, too... The filmmakers responsible for this travesty should hang their heads in shame. Forrest Whitaker should have his head examined (and his soul): to portray this man as "just a good ol' boy" is nothing less than a criminal act.