Worth seeing for other reasons than the director's lack of respect for historical facts

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2007)

What bothers me most about this film is the fact that thousands of people around the world left the cinema believing that Idi Amin brutally mutilated one of his own wives and that this was the reason of her sleeping with a fairly uninteresting Scottish doctor who existed, knew Amin, and was hanged by hooks ripping his flesh.
That's a very dirty way of mixing fiction with history. And I believe it was - sadly - very effective in the way that the film closes with more or less factual information followed by real images of Idi Amin and Uganda during his era.
But it seems like there aren't any protests really, because Amin was still a dictator, right? Still I don't regret seeing this flick because Forest Whitaker gives a good performance, there's great music and some great scenery.