The Last King of Scotland
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- Synopsis
- Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician....
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- Director(s)
- Kevin Macdonald
- Distributor(s)
- Fox Searchlight
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 121 min.
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Critic Reviews
Unlike Sean Penn's demagogue in "All the King's Men," you're able to forget that Whitaker is acting. He embodies the role. When clips of the real Amin are shown at the end, it's almost shocking to realize the extent to which Whitaker has become him.Read the full review
Drawing on a documentary visual style he deftly employed in "One Day in September" and "Touching the Void," director Kevin Macdonald uses McAvoy's boyishness to treat Garrigan's apolitical foolishness as yet another damn mess in one African country's hell.Read the full review
Captures the energy and exuberance of a young nation in the throes of optimism and works it into a foreboding frenzy.Read the full review
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