Is The Last King of Scotland actually good?

The Last King of Scotland sits in the 82.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.5% of them.

How does The Last King of Scotland compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Last King of Scotland lands in the 87.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Last King of Scotland's score based on?

342 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Last King of Scotland's score.

2006

global pct

82.5

Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s

The Last King of Scotland

Name: The Last King of Scotland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 2006

Scored from 342 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

82.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

87.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

97.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

342 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young Scottish doctor travels to Uganda seeking adventure and ends up becoming the personal physician and confidant to the country's new president, Idi Amin. As he is drawn deeper into Amin's inner circle, he slowly discovers the brutal reality of the regime he has been helping to legitimize.

Released in 2006, The Last King of Scotland is a biography, drama and history film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 342 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 351 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 13,353 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is The Last King of Scotland (2006) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 342
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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