A Sad Portrayel of Understood Fate

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2007)

I was excited to watch this movie because all i had heard was the perfection of Forest Whitaker's performance and how he was a run away for the Oscar. I expected the rest of the movie to keep up and it did in some aspects yet not in others. Whitaker carries most of the movie but he alone can not overcome how predictable it is. The audience knows what will ultimately occur at the end of the movie even if they know nothing of Amin or his reign of terror. Not only does the audience know what will happen but so does McAvoy, the supporting actor. The movie doesn't just lead on to the ending, it makes it clearly obvious way too soon. I'm not one to ever spoil a movie; unfortunately Kevin Macdonald is.