Although it takes a while to warm up, the torture scenes in this film are really tremendous. Unfortunately we are not treated to scenes of Idi Amin eating babies, which is unfortunate. That's why i started the sentence with the word 'unfortunately'.

The film very closely copies Giles Foden’s award-winning novel of the same name by being an award-winning film: a BAFTA in 2007 for best British film, and for Forest Whitaker, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an NAACP Image Award for best actor.

The central character in “The Last Kind of Scotland” (well, that’s what it said on my movie ticket), Doctor Nicholas Garrigan, is a total lunatic. He has no sense of history, proportion or logic. He careers his way through Uganda making bad decisions and taking women, cars and liberties with an abandon and a complete lack of moral compass that i find, well, refreshing.

James McAvoy’s acting as the Doctor must have been good, because i didn't think he was acting. Perhaps he was just well cast.

Forest Whitaker, however, is a gem. His portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is a fascinating blend of the threatening and charming. Forest works hard at his role, I can tell, because he is covered in a veneer of sweat throughout the whole film.

The Jim Jarmusch film Ghost Dog also features Forest Whitaker, and it is also cranking good performance. But in The Last Kind of Scotland, Forest is on fire as the charming, torturing, murdering Amin.

As they say, it's all fun until someone loses an eye.

And then it's really fun.


Recommended: Yes

Movie Mood: Serious Movie
Viewing Method: Film Festival
Film Completeness: Looked complete to me.
Worst Part of this Film: Music