Forest Whitaker at the top of his game as Idi Amin.

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2007)

Stunning and riveting movie. Forest Whitaker is absolutely excellent. This is a fictionalized version of Idi Amin's(Whitaker) reign of terror as the ruthless dictator of Uganda. Upon graduation from med school in Scotland, a young Nicholas Garrigan(James McAvoy)spins his desk globe and picks Africa's Uganda as the first site of using his medical skills. The locals are dancing in the streets thrilled with the new take over by Idi Amin. A chance meeting results in Garrigan becoming the charming new leader's personal physician. The young doctor is impressed with the fact that Amin has a passion for Scottish culture...anything Scottish. The doctor-patient relationship becomes a close personal friendship that has Amin making his doctor a political adviser, a position that is the center of the dictator's inner circle. Garrigan begins to witness personality changes and the shift of Amin in becoming a threatening dichotomous ruler. Caught up in the decadence, it becomes harder for the entitled physician to escape the whirlwind of madness. Other cast members: Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo and Simon McBurney.