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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
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Movie Review by Martin
August 12th, 2009
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Man i seem to be seeing alot of good movies recently, and "The Last king of Scotland" is no exception. Infact, its probably one of the better ones.
The Film is about a seriously young doctor who travels to Uganda in the 1970s, befriending their president Idi Amin after a chance meeting, but once taking a job of him, sees there is another side to the famous leader and his smiling face.
The film was rightfully reconized by the oscars and other awards, most of whom favoured Forrest Whitakers performance as the Ugandanian president, which realy is the main reason to catch the movie. Whitaker is amazing as the leader who supposidly loved all things Scottish (As do i!) one minute genuinly jolly and likeable, the next, blankfaced and scarey. Also, i cant say i'm much of a fan of James McAvoy, but he is something of a match for Whitaker here, one minute naive, c*cky, and annoyingly smiley, the next deadly serious, and straight faced as he realises the greatness of the situation he has landed himself in. We are with McAvoy all the way as he lands himself in deeper sh*t in a place he doesnt know well enough to be messing with at all. Its his characters situation and story that make the film something you cant turn off until the end, even if its Whitakers performance that esculates it to brilliance. The fact that McAvoys genuinly Scottish helps too, as another actor attempting to do a Scottish accent could of ruined the whole thing (Simon Pegg from "Star trek" anyone?). I'm Scottish by the way, so also have a fondness for some of the films very Scotlike moments too.
The Character McAvoy plays is entirely made up however, which could make the film historically inaccurate as a portrait of the real Idi Amin. But the plots actually cleverer than it looks, taking real life events that happened around Amin and ancoring them to the one character we can follow through them, and as i've said, its following McAvoys story that makes the film unstopable.
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