The Last King Of Scotland (DVD)

I suspect the casting process for the Last King of Scotland was one of the quickest in film history. James McAvoy is the hottest young Scottish talent around (now Ewan McGregor is spending most of his time making bad movies and messing around on his motorbike!), whilst there are very few twenty stones black actors working today. Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible and Pulp Fiction) is way too cool to bung on anther five stones and Lenny Henry just doesn’t have the experience. Get Forrest on the line! But it was no easy Oscar for the big man, a lot of hard work required to play this very physical figure, although he was always going to win it if he nailed the big man. ...  Read the complete review

The Last King of Scotland is based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name and is directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay adaptation by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. This is a short review of the film and not the DVD. The story follows Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who arrives in Uganda fresh from medical school during the early 1970s to work at a missionary clinic. His arrival coincides with the military coup led by Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). It is almost by chance that Garrigan comes across Amin and after giving him treatment for an injury he is invited to be his personal physician. It is not long though that he finds himself in the ...  Read the complete review

I was excited about this film when I heard about it being made a couple of years back. I love James McAvoy you see so keep a keen eye on what he is making, then when I found out that another favourite of mine Gillian Anderson was in it I had to go and see it. I missed it at the cinema as I do most films and heard such good things about throughout its release. Then when it came onto DVD I bought it on the first day it was out to give it a go. I was worried that I had built it up so much and that I would be disappointed but was so glad when I actually watched it and found it just as brilliant as everybody else. ----- The Film: Nicholas ...  Read the complete review

The Last King of Scotland was released in 2007 as a film of the novel by Giles Foden of the same title. It is a story about Idi Amin, the president of Uganda in the 1970s, and mixes fact and fiction. Forrest Whitaker stars as Amin, in an Oscar winning turn, with James McAvoy as his personal physician, Nicholas Garrigan. The story follows Nicholas (a fictional character) as he becomes a qualified doctor, then heads off to Uganda rather than stay in Scotland to work with his father. Once in Uganda, he crosses paths with Amin, who loves the Scots and all things Scottish. He employs Nicholas as his personal doctor, and Nicholas is suddenly living the high life in ...  Read the complete review

Over the last month or so I seem to have been catching up with a number of films that I’d actually been quite keen to see when they were in the cinema. The latest one on my list was The Last King Of Scotland, a film I had heard a lot of good things about. So I sat down last night to finally catch up with the film and see what all the fuss was about. It’s based on the true story of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and the way he ruled Uganda during a certain phase of his dictatorship. Would the film life up to the expectations though? Well there was only one way to find out. The movie focuses on the view of Amin’s (Forest Whitaker) regime through the eyes of a ...  Read the complete review