The Last King of Scotland

Bit of a letdown. Never really hits its stride, & falls back on too many trite conventions for my taste (the romantic arc, his heroic escape). Whitaker is really more of a supporting player, but he’s such a towering and genuinely terrifying figure — what works in this picture really works because of him — and he deserves every accolade he’s received for his performance. It’s profoundly brutal and unsettling — but how could it not be? I think the film turns true events into a successful narrative but it doesn’t really add a whole lot to them.

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