Good Movie in General

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2007)

I went to this movie specifically to see the performance of Forrest Whitaker and came away liking all of the other performances too. Forrest did a fantastic job playing Idi Amin. He captured his mannerisms and personality to a tea. The young doctor was very good too and his character of course is written in such a way that you dislike him but grow to feel sorry for him as the movie progresses. I personally thought that Gillian Anderson and Kerry Washington were mostly wasted in this movie with the same macho, male silliness that is always prescribed to women in these movies. They don't just fall into bed with the first man that is nice to them and I wish Hollywood would start recognizing that it turns the female audience off immediately. The violence was a little excessive, everyone know that Amin regimen killed people and it would have been nice if they had focused more on what made the man.