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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: WHITAKER,FOREST EAN: 0024543407201 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox MPN: FOXD2240727D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 17, 2007 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Editorial Review: Product Description: This is idi amins story as seen through the eyes of nicholas garrigan a young scotsman who becomes the volatile leaders personal physician due in part to amins unexpected passion for scottish culture. Seduced by amins charisma garrigans dream life becomes a waking nightmare from which there is no escape. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/14/2008 Starring: Forest Whitaker James Mcavoy Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R Amazon.com: As the evil Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Forest Whitaker gives an unforgettable performance in The Last King of Scotland. Powerfully illustrating the terrible truth that absolute power corrupts absolutely, this fictionalized chronicle of Amin's rise and fall is based on the acclaimed novel by Giles Foden, in which Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His outsider's perspective causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power, but as the story progresses--and as Whitaker's award-worthy performance grows increasingly monstrous--The Last King of Scotland turns into a pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny. As Whitaker plays him, Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive--sometimes in the same breath--and McAvoy effectively conveys the tragic cost of his character's naiveté, which grows increasingly prone to exploitation. As directed by Kevin Macdonald (who made the riveting semi-documentary Into the Void), this potent cautionary tale my prompt some viewers to check out Barbet Schroeder's equally revealing documentary General Idi Amin Dada, an essential source for much of this film's authentic detail. --Jeff Shannon Beyond The Last King of Scotland
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 Rating:  - A must seeThe Last King of Scotland is both a showcase of superb acting performances and a taught, suspensful thriller. I highly recommend adding it to your collection. Few people are familiar with Idi Amin, not one of the 20th Century's more famous dictators, but extremely bloody with an estimated 300,000 Ugandans killed under his regime. Forrest Whittaker deserves his oscar as the paranoid, playful despot capturing the ruthless side but also, most difficult, his playful side. There are superb ... Read More Rating: - Whitaker Worthy of HIs Oscar.Forest Whitaker was simply remarkable as ex-Ugandan thug and dictator Idi Amin. The screenplay was adapted from a novel centered on a fictional character, Nicholas Garrigan, a Scotsman who becomes Amin's personal physician. Two of the great aspects of this movie: Forest Whitaker and the local flavor. Whitaker justly received an Oscar for his performance. Not only does he bear an eerie resemblance to the real Amin, but he manages to create a more nuanced and deeper portrait than one might expect. ... Read More Rating:  - Should Have Been A Great FilmForrest Whitaker's mesmerizingly powerful performance as one of the last century's more brutal tyrants was this movie's sole saving grace. Even the presence of James McAvoy, one of my favorite young actors, didn't do much toward salvaging what this motion picture, by its closing act, had become. The Last King of Scotland had a lot of talent behind it and the first half showed that, but the promise of its beginnings was simply annihilated in its muddled second half, which was little less than a cinematic ... Read More Rating: - The Last King of ScotlandWhile Nicholas Garrigan never existed, he was the sum of several people who were close to Idi Amin. Forest Whitaker was both charming and terrifying as Amin. James McAvoy, an up and coming actor was good with the character that was given him. He was much better in the later half of the movie when it became apparent that he was no longer the trusted advisor, but a target of the man who claimed to be the father of his people and who claimed to love Garrigan. McAvoy shines in his latest roles in Becoming ... Read More Rating: - A truly dazzling look at a fictional truth...`The Last King of Scotland' opens almost childishly, kind of amateurish, as if it was going to make light of a very serious subject. Almost immediately though it shifts gears and begins its gradual decline into darker waters, submersing the audience in the stirring madness that was the reign of Idi Amin. Told through the eyes of fictitious character Dr. Nicholas Garrigan, `The Last King of Scotland' attempts to give the audience a ringside seat to the tragic events surrounding Amin's rise to power; and ... Read More |
