Hand-held Cameras

I suppose filming with hand-held cameras can be interesting - especially for documentary films where it might not be conducive to set up a camera on its tripod or whatever it is on these days; or when the film-maker wants a close-up that would be particularly difficult using normal techniques. But usually, hand-held cameras moving around the place can make one dizzy.
In the film "End of Watch" it's hand-held camera for the whole film. The reason, I think, is that the director wanted to give the audience the feeling that they were close if not actually in on the action. It did the reverse. It made me so conscious of the camera that I just couldn't get interested in the story. Not that there was much a story to tell. Two LAPD coppers on their beat. Two close friends who jabbered a lot to show us hop close they were to each other. Two decent fellows who did they're jobs well, caught crooks, weren't corrupt, had pleasant wife/girl friend. Normal guys, regular guys who did their duty, got to arrest some real nasty bits of work until they upset a cartel whose boss ordered some of his gang to kill them. Which is when the real action began. Up until then it had been a sort of documentary type of film - "lives of the policemen in the LAPD" sort of thing.
But what a tedious journey it was with all that hand-held camera stuff to put up with.
Sometimes the technique is used effectively so that you don't realise the camera is hand held - it's done so smoothly. "24" for instance. But usually you are so aware that you are watching a film that it all seems contrived and false.
The director should take a good long look at a film by the Japanese director Ozu who hardly moves his camera at all.