Great Movie - Big Spoilers here!

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2006)

What an incredible movie, Whittaker was indeed Amin Dada, an absolutely total Oscar if he can beat out Helen Mirren in the Queen. What a brave and wonderful leap for an American actor to take to portray this awful African villain. It would have been an unequivocal 10 for me, but for the performance of the absolutely wet Scotty doctor Nicholas Carrigan who didn't convince anyone from the get-go, jumping into the lake in his underpants and dissing his lovely Scottish parents (I will forgive his cavalier pass on Canada) and boinking some poor Ugandan woman on the bus in the opening scene, sliming up to his new and totally saintly doctor boss's wife (wow, played brilliantly by Gillian Anderson, who mercifully turned the little toad down) slithering off into Idi's inner circle, corrupting himself with his sports car and accoutrement's of corrupt power, finally betraying the trust of his gangster boss by rogering the most attractive of his wives (wouldn't you think that would be perhaps the dumbest career decision you could ever make, though you could see it happening for at least forty minutes) good god in heaven, didn't the boy learn any ethics or basic standards of behaviour in Med School, particularly in Scotland. OK, we take off one point for James McAvoy, I am not alone, I sat in the pub after the show and wondered how I was going to tell everyone, until they all said the same.