Forest Whitaker is the red-hot favourite to win this year's Academy Award as Best Actor In A Leading Role for his searing portrayal of Idi Amin.

It's a virtuoso performance of intensity and fury, leavened with humour. The Last King Of Scotland begins rather gently but soon gathers dramatic momentum, and the final 20 minutes are a tour de force demonstration in edge-of-seat suspense.

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