The Last King Of Scotland DVD > Reviews > Watch it just for Whitaker's performace

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Good
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	powerful fast paced story, spellbinding .
Disadvantages:	needs to make clear that this is part fact, part fiction

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This is a powerful and addictive film to watch. Forest Whitaker gives an amazing performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator who rose to power in the 1970s. James McAvoy plays Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who goes to Uganda and becomes Amin's personal doctor. The film uses the doctor to show what kind of man/dictator Amin is, plus all the lavish lifestyle he has become used to, is simply not worth it due to the bloodshed and corruption around him

Forest Whitaker plays this larger than life character with such passion and turly is the best performance I have seen in a long time. He was perfect for the role and this could be the role that Whitaker is remembered for. You become addicted to Amin, in the way the doctor does and you too go through the spiral of decadence and moral crisis the doctor does.

Extras include commentary by the director (which I still need to listen to), the documentary about Armin and how he is portrayed in the film is quite good. The extras are quite minimal, but not too bad.