The Final Year (12A)
Directed by Greg Barker
3*

WHEN he and his team received unprecedented access to President Obama and his foreign policy team during their final year in office, director Greg Barker presumably believed he was making an unprecedented tribute to the near-sanctified president and the ongoing Democrat grip on power.

Unfortunately, when Donald Trump defeated the tainted Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, real life got in the way.

Barker's intention was to make a film that goes beyond the politics of the moment and “foster a wider discussion about how America can and should relate to the wider world” and, to this end, he filmed at the White House and State Department in Washington, the UN in New York and numerous countries globally as he followed US officials going about their business.