The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
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The war is under way and Robbie - McAvoy ("The Last King of Scotland") brilliantly portrays him as a very changed man - has been released from prison to serve in the Army in France.
McAvoy, who made his mark in "The Last King of Scotland," here becomes a bona fide leading man, his virility in early scenes later giving way to an even more affecting sensitivity.
McAvoy ("The Last King of Scotland") comes into his own as a lead; and Knightley, costumed to the nines, gives her most mature performance to date.
Atonement will certainly make McAvoy, who was inevitably overshadowed by Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, a star in his own right.
And as Robbie, McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, Becoming Jane), radioactive with lust, personifies Atonement's broken heart.
To put a story like this across, the actors must be in complete sync with the project and each other, and McAvoy, recently seen opposite Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland," and Knightley, whom the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies turned into an international star, are able to do just that.
It’s a soulless drama that’s passionately directed by James Mangold (“Logan”/”The Last King of Scotland”).
( The Last King of Scotland and The Iron Lady come to mind.)
The shrewd script by Peter Morgan (“Frost/Nixon,” “The Last King of Scotland,” “The Queen”) stresses the parallels in the men’s lives.
The screenplay by Peter Morgan, who specializes in scripts based on recent history (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland, The Damned United) and collaborated previously with Howard on Frost/Nixon (2008), gives us the background of each character in broad strokes that unfortunately rely on rather self-conscious and out-of-place voice-over narration before focusing the film’s narrative energy on the 1975–76 racing season, when Hunt and Lauda were at their competitive high points.
His resume includes great films like "The Last King of Scotland", "The Queen", "Frost/Nixon" and "The Damned United".
Frost/Nixon , The Queen , The Last King Of Scotland , The Damned United , even the historical-romance adaptation The Other Boleyn Girl —each of them explores a historical figure through a key relationship, generally a political or professional association that comes to mean much more.
“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon” and “The Last King of Scotland” certainly showed his dexterity with political and historical material.
And Morgan wrote “Frost/Nixon,” along with “The Last King of Scotland” and “The Queen.”
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The premise seems limiting, but Knight, his cinematographer, Haris Zambarloukos ("Thor"), and his editor, Justine Wright ("The Last King of Scotland"), ensure that visual interest never flags.