History YMMV / TheLastKingOfScotland

* HarsherInHindsight: Nicholas' situation. Imagine if you were friends with someone who's the leader of a nation and then they are being accused of being a dictator. Naturally you defend them, but what would you do when the accusations turn out to be facts and you watch your friend become unstable to the point where he'll kill anyone who does something he doesn't like, including you yourself?

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: This scene [[TrailersAlwaysLie edited for the trailer]] wouldn't be out of place in a WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.

* CompleteMonster: UsefulNotes/IdiAmin is a brutal dictator that takes what he wants by force. While he first comes off as a charismatic and modernizing leader to the main character, a Scottish doctor named Nicholas Garrigan, Amin brutally represses the population of Uganda throughout the film. Although he claims to be doing it to establish peace, his orders to deport people solely based on their ancestry (people from southern Asia) and murders based purely on suspicion show that he's fueled purely by his paranoia. He deliberately cuts off one of his wives and disowns the son that she bore him simply because the child was epileptic. Amin later [[ColdBloodedTorture brutally tortures Garrigan with meat hooks]] after discovering Garrigan's affair with the previously mentioned wife, and fully intends to torture Garrigan to death.

* WhatAnIdiot: Yes, Nicholas. Sleeping with the wife of a deranged dictator will definitely work out well for you.