Last King of Scotland

I also saw Last King of Scotland

This was pretty good. Mel Gibson should have watched it to see how to use gratuitous violence to good effect. More words and phrases to describe it:

Forrest Whitaker is absolutely brilliant

James McEvoy was such a hateful character that I wanted to see him die. This is never a good sign. I wanted Jaguar Paws in Apocalypto to suffer an excruciating death too but there were too many plot devices and coincidences for him to die.

James McEvoy was hateful because his character was at once naïve, selfish, immoral and blasé.

There was no timeline so one minute Idi was sane if eccentric, the next he was as mad as cheese.

It felt like somewhere in the middle about ten minutes ended up on the cutting room floor.

Still, its shot on lovely film stock and is exciting and different.

My score:

8/10