this film can be judge from three viewpoint represent a history and a a profile of amin and a a fictional thriller . it fail a history and it mention in pass the coup that throw out obote and the expulsion of the asian and and have the entebbe hi jack a background and but not in any chronologically consistent time frame . a a profile of amin it may have be interesting and because forest whitaker be incredibly good and and if this be a good film and he would get an oscar . ( he get it which prove the oscar voter do not watch the film they vote on . ) it ignore relevant historical episode in the novel and which observe amin and the history of uganda from the point of view of the doctor . it tell instead the fictitious story of the scot doctor and his impossible love life from the point of view of amin . but the story tell be the one incident that amin be probably innocent of . a a fictional thriller and there be no plot to hold it together . the beginning be taut it take cinematic liberty with the novel and but set up the story . the character of the doctor be well defined and but become lose in the second half of the film which suffer a a result . why the doctor decide to stay in kampala be badly explain seduce by power . why he befriend no one be strange . the character of the friend in the novel have be lose because the scotsman have the affair instead of the black doctor a ludicrous entanglement which do not seem even faintly believable and but allow the writer of the film to show the ferocity of amin close at hand . the man call horse bit at the end be risible . finally in 1971 and uganda drove on the left and not right and the number plate be three letter and two or three number and where be the equator tusk . in short if you have never hear of amin and you may want to spend two hour watch this film to appreciate forest whitaker acting and but the last hour will bore you to confusion . if you know uganda or have read the book do not see the film it will only depress you . and if you want to know why the doctor be so foolhardy he wasn not .