Entertaining movie, but felt used by the fictionalization...

Rating: 6/10 (14 April 2007)

While I found "The Last King of Scotland" to be an entertaining movie with a superb lead performance from James McAvoy and supporting performance from Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin, I left the theatre wanting to learn more about the lead character of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan. I wanted to know where he was today, and if the movie was based on his actual memoirs. Well, imagine my surprise when I found out that his character NEVER REALLY EXISTED!!!! I felt so used! Then I wondered just how much of the movie was twisted to show the evils of Amin. Many know the real history of what happened in Uganda, and this is not it. The real story is even more horrifying than anything that was shown in this movie, and that's the big let down of it all. If they could've told the real story, without the fictional characters and situations, this movie would have been so much more powerful. As it is, it leaves you wondering what is real and what is not, and I, for one, felt used.