Went with my wife to see this. She is Ugandan and grew up under Idi Amin's regime so we knew fairly well what to expect. Nothing outstanding about this film but a must see, well put together story entwining fact and fiction from one of Uganda's darkest parts of history. Found it quite shockingly graphic in some of the murder, torture scenes - even more so by knowing that they were based on factual events. Overall a very good film and worth the money - although don't go expecting a Hollywood gun's blazing, all action movie. That it certainly isn't!

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wow!!!!!! wat a film some very sad partsd some very moving parts i loved it the actors were great loved it wll buyit when its out on dvd

Idi Amin was superficially a comic figure there was in reality nothing at all amusing about this maniacal psychopath. So to make a movie about Amin the minimum requirement is to ensure that his tyranny is clear – and this the director of "The Last King of Scotland" Kevin Macdonald does exceptionally well. Amin could have been depicted merely as a comical Gilbert and Sullivan grotesque (which he was), but Macdonald - in his first feature film – uses his documentary-making experience to present Amin also as a far from fictional mass-murderer.

Amin is revealed in all his horrendous authenticity by the creation of a fictional character in the young Scots doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) through whose eyes we see the dictator in all his raw brutal detail. "The Last King of Scotland" is about the corruption that always comes from power – not just the corruption of Amin, but the corruption of Garrigan as well. Gradually the privileges of power give Garrigan the conceit that he can do what he likes – just as his employer does. When this includes the idea that he can have a sexual relationship with Amin's attractive third wife Kay (beautifully played by Kerry Washington) his delusion is almost as mad as Amin's. It's probably never a good career move to screw the wife of a maniacal mass-murdering psychopath! What turns a very good film into a great one is the astonishing portrayal of Amin by Forest Whitaker.

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