The Last King Of Scotland Details

Hype

Though this was hardly the worst film I have seen this year it was somewhat of an anticlimax. I can only assume that the masses have once more followed like sheep instead of using their own minds.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Good film, but factually incorrect

This story is 'based on' factual events. The great disclaimer.

First off, Idi Amin didn't have a Scottish doctor. He was mental though.

Also, the film starts with James McAvoy getting fresh with Gillian Anderson and then the whole James/Gillian thing seems to be forgotten for the rest of the film. Seems a bit pointless, really.

Forrest Whittaker won an Oscar for this, and righfully so: he's got the Central African accent down pat and makes a pretty convincing mental-case.

I was delighted with the film (4+ stars, easy), then disappointed once I did a bit of Wikipedia searching to find that it was mostly fiction (hence the removal of a star).

When they make a film of my life, I hope they put the 'based on factual events' bit at the start and then write a film about me being married to Cindy Crawford and being a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. Neither of which are true, of course, but I am married to a girl and I do have a job and give 20 quid a month to Unicef.