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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]

Thistle go down as a great movie....

Forrest Whittaker is immense in this, surely worthy of an Oscar, there is no other way to describe it. The switches of mood and the way he brings Idi Amin over is absolutely, horrifically, disturbing. The quirks and foibles of Amin's neurotic behaviour really have an effect when you watch this. As real as it is, profiling a modern dictator brought to power with the help of the British only then to become neurotic and turn against the hand that once fed him. As a pure stand alone drama film, it is excellent. A downside... there isn't really one, James McAvoy was good, though not what I expected, I thoroughly enjoy McAvoy in everything I see him in. Also nice to see X-Files Gillian Anderson play ing a role as a doctors wife and a bit of love interest. All in all I wanted to use the loo half way through - but couldn't peel myself away, i didn't want to miss any of this, it's is a definate must see film.