What a waste of my time!!!

Masterful Movie

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I don't know how these gooses end up as presidents, but it happens way too often. Anyway I laughed at the rubbish that comes out of amin's mouth, whenever he makes a mistake, he asks some British dude how to make himself look less ridiculous. Senseless killings, cannibalism, it's all there to see, worth watching, you would laugh more if this was fiction, knowing these atrocities actually happened makes it more of a somber affair. the main actor played idi amin well and kept me motivated to finish this monstrosity of a movie, being history, this is worth watching and if it helps i found it on youtube in VHS quality which made me go way back in time. I won't be watching a rerun, that's for sure.

Many years before seeing Forest, we had this actor, Olita, very good, although at times, when playing this notorious beast of an evil African dictator, his words seem stilted, as though, he isn't quite sure his lines are hundred percent down. Regardless of that, he generates a truly scary portrayal of this monster, responsible for the deaths, via execution style, of over 500 000 people, including some paul pry reporters, sticking their noses in too deep. He even humps an underage girl, first telling his boy, discreetly to get out of the car. Olita truly gets the character, and this no holds barred film doesn't hold back on it's brutality, with it's shocking scenes of violence, some of Bit, real in your face stuff. Amin (aka: big daddy), also kept some of his trophies in the same place, Patrick Bateman did. My probs with the film, although I really did enjoy it (another addictive 80's pleasure) was it's rush of story from the get go, where rather what comes off, is a sleazy 80's cheese version, where instead a lot of shock scenes and some sleazy ones have been put in. Not that they don't have merit, or aren't visibly affecting. Good movies, in my opinion, just don't form, from being applied this way or taking this attitude. All that aside, it is still a compelling and recommended watch, especially if you like sleaze and violence.

The mere fact that there are enough exploitation films based on Idi Amin to merit their own genre in a video store, Idi Aminxploitation is truly disturbing.I don't just mean films about Idi Amin, I mean outright exploitations films which use the Ugandan dictator to include as much sex and violence as possible.This one's unique by taking the bold move casting real Africans actors to play Africans rather than American Mulattos with fake accents. The authentic African accents are a double edged sword. While it does make us feel like this really is Africa but their accents are so strong it can be difficult to understand what they're saying. And now that I think of it they shouldn't even be speaking English at all! Oh well, still better than those American Mulattos.Idi Amin is right up there with Caligula as not being too important to history itself but extremely memorably simply for his insanity and debauchery.There's never a dull moment in this film. It's fast paced and Amin's insanity provides non stop entertainment.The only major problem is that if you don't actually know the history of Idi Amin you'll be lost. The film doesn't actually explain the context for many scenes. For example, the Israeli hostages and the raid at Entebbe are never explained.The ending is also a major let down. It just ends out of nowhere! There's no climax, no resolution, it's just ends by saying the film is devoted to Amin's victims. Yeah right! They made an exploitation film to honor the dead? It's certainly worth a watch and stands out as far better than any of the other Idi Aminxploitation films.

Saw this film in a cinema as a part of a surprise show and was really surprised! It was the german version and Idi Amin was spoken by the german voice of Bud Spencer! Great entertainment! Never expected a film like this! Look and enjoy!This is a real classic!