The Last King of Scotland

3.00
    The Last King of Scotland
    2006

    Synopsis

    Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

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    Cast

    • Forest WhitakerIdi Amin
    • James McAvoyDr. Nicholas Garrigan
    • Simon McBurneyBritish Diplomat
    • Gillian AndersonSarah Merrit
    • Kerry WashingtonKay Amin
    • David OyelowoDr. Thomas Junju
    • Abby Mukiibi NkaagaMasanga
    • Adam KotzDr. David Merrit
    • Barbara RaffertyMrs. Garrigan
    • David AshtonDr. Garrigan - Senior

    Recommendations

    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The film is phenomenally well directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Justine Wright to bring out every bit of scary volatility in the most casual interactions.
    • 90

      Newsweek

      Forest Whitaker, uncorking the power that he usually holds in check, gives a chilling, bravura performance as Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin, whose bloody regime slaughtered more than 300,000 people. This intelligent, sometimes gruesome thriller is based on a novel by Giles Foden.
    • 80

      Los Angeles Times

      Captures the energy and exuberance of a young nation in the throes of optimism and works it into a foreboding frenzy.
    • 75

      Premiere

      Whitaker's Amin is the kind of raging lunatic that only an actor who has made a specialty of quiet caginess could pull off so convincingly. It's great, and scary, to see Whitaker turn it up to 11 for once.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Director Kevin Macdonald has fashioned a film that is at times nearly as harrowing as his previous endeavor, "Touching the Void."
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      An imaginative and original picture turns conventional as it ends.
    • 70

      Variety

      In the end, The Last King of Scotland is much better when it plays it cool and amusing than when it tries to ramp up outrage and indignation.
    • 70

      The New Yorker

      Whitaker, in the performance of a lifetime, makes him (Idi Amin) a charismatic madman.

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