Forest Whitaker gives a barnstorming performance in a bitter, juicy plum of a role, which allows him effortlessly to steal the scene in the London film festival's opening movie. He plays Uganda's brutal dictator Idi Amin, who terrorised his country throughout the 1970s, and with mercurial panto-villain charisma mesmerised the rest of the world.

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