The Last King of Scotland

This was a good, solid filmmaking work by Kevin MacDonald, great acting with James McAvoy and oscar favorite Forest Whitaker and a smart script. A young Scottish doctor(McAvoy as Nicholas) moves to Uganda to help the Ugandites from disease and illness. He runs into newly appointed President Didi Amin. Amin aks him to become his personal doctor and "closest advisor". Nicholas soon finds out that Amin is not the charismatic, helper of Uganda. The story moves on with a battle between Amin's dictatorship and Nicholas' ethics and love of people. The struggle ends bad for Nicholas, when Amin finds out about his affair with Amin's third wife. This was a pretty original script but it did have some flaws. I did not feel that the flashbacks were necessary. I thought it was cheap for the editing team to use the flashback. Overall, it is definately a good film, with its acting as its greatest quality.