Wow. This movie is rockin' like Dokken. It takes place in Uganda during the reign of the nutcase Idi Amin, played brilliantly in this movie by Forrest Whittaker. It's a fictional account of those years, but the film maker wove fact and fiction together rather well.
A young Scottish doctor, James McAvoy, wants to escape from a life of practicing medicine with his dad so he decides to run off to Uganda to work in a bush clinic. After "bagging" a hot African gal he met on the bus, the Scottish sawbones gets to the clinic where he finds out he will be working alongside a sweaty hot Gillian Anderson. He makes a play for her but gets rebuffed.
Events conspire to bring the Scottish doctor and Ugandan President Idi Amin together. Amin takes the young doctor into his entourage because he has a love jones for all things Scottish. The doctor laps up all the luxury and perks of being in the inner circle and he does not see the twisted violence that Amin uses to keep himself in power, until it is almost too late.
We don't want to give too much away so we'll stop summarizing the movie now.
Performances that sizzle like bacon are those turned in by McAvoy, Whittaker, and Kerry Washington as one of Amin's wives and McAvoy's lover. Simon McBurney, who some of you Brit com lovers may recognize as the choir director from Vicar of Dibley, turns in a quite chillingly creepy yet stellar performance as a British intelligence officer in Uganda.
All in all we loved this film and we agree with the Oscar voters who voted for Forrest Whittaker for Best Actor for his performance in this movie. The only thing that would have made this movie any better would have been if there were some characters with mullets in it. If it had some mullet sportin' characters, it would be a masterpiece.So say us!!! So say we all!!!!!!!!!!! 
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