Shot with precision and detailed with informative dialogue, viewers have the opportunity to dwell in the mind of one of the world's most vicious fiends.

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2006)

Forest Whitaker inhabits the heartless monster of Idi Amin, Uganda's President from 1971-1979, with ease as he leads a cast of stellar performances in this true story of corruption in a country so hopeless its residents would follow any leader who rose to the opportunity. Subsequently, in 1971, Idi Amin was elected the Ugandan President for some years to come. In the eight years following his initiation, his unflinching thirst for power would lead to deaths of more than 300,000 Hindus, Christians, and Lango tribes. The number of deaths by persecution that Uganda witnessed during Amin's tenure as President stands as one of the highest death tolls one nation's leader has been responsible for since Adolf Hitler. The Last King of Scotland recounts the terrifying story of Amin's rule through the view-point of a young Scottish doctor, who travels to Uganda to aid the fight against disease that the population was succumbing to. James McAvoy, in his most prominent role to date, is fit for the role at hand. We watch his character, Nick Garrigan, as he is adopted into Amin's regime as the President's personal physician. As young Nick realizes the corruption and willful malevolence of the leader, he begins to scheme an overthrow of the reigning dictator; to save his life and the life of thousands of Ugandans. Kevin McDonald goes about his depiction of the events that took place in a fashion reminiscent of 2004's Downfall, which told the story of the last days of Hitler's reign through the eyes of his private secretary. Shot with precision and detailed with informative dialogue, viewers have the opportunity to dwell in the mind of one of the world's most vicious fiends.