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Don Cheadle gives a riveting performance as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a European-owned hotel in Rwanda, who created a secret refugee camp for the Tutsi people during the brutal genocide committed against them by the Hutu people in 1994. His efforts helped to save 1200 lives out of close to a million who were killed. HOTEL RWANDA shows this man's courage, while also capturing the political events that occurred between April and September '94. First, United Nations soldiers are restricted from fighting back against Hutu guerillas, even after the Rwandan president is assassinated and the country is thrown into chaos. But as the fighting worsens, all non-Rwandans including UN peacekeepers, Europeans, and Americans are evacuated. This leaves the Tutsi people defenseless against aggressive Hutus who are armed with machine guns and machetes. While working the system with strategic phone calls to powerful international contacts of the hotel, Rusesabagina also uses smart lies and power plays to hold off the Hutus. The morale among the refugees is low, but because they are protected from the inconceivable brutality happening outside the hotel's gates, they maintain a sense of hope. Powerful acting from all cast members, including throngs of children, makes this film touching and believable. Sophie Okonedo offers moving support as Rusesabagina's wife Tatiana, Nick Nolte shows knowing machismo as an American UN officer, and Joaquin Phoenix turns in a heartfelt display as a TV journalist. But it is the delicate treatment that director Terry George gives the insane, helpless situation depicted in HOTEL RWANDA which makes the film so penetrating. While the violence and gore of the genocide play a disturbing part in the film, the focus lies on the heroism of its protagonist and the strength with which he navigates under seemingly impossible odds.
Quick Glance
Genre: Dramas
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
Relase Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
UPC: 00027616925121
I appreciate the raising awareness factor of the movie and that the seriousness was conveyed without showing many scenes of violence. However, the movie makes it seem as if the Hutu/Tutsi problem was limited to that time period and place, though there have been thousands (millions?) more of them killed in Burundi, Congo,and Uganda before and since. Hopefully, this movie will cause us to be more...
I am not a real big fan of people taking History lessons from Hollywood, however, I think this movie is one of the best mediums to teach young westeners that the Holocaust wasn't the only holocaust of the 20th Century. Canadian youth learn about the massacre briefly, too briefly actually, because of Canadian involvement in peacekeeping there. However, I don't know how much young Americans are...
Magellan did an excellent review of this movie, and it was one of the best I have seen in a long time. The hotel manager (Paul Rusesabagina) is a real life hero who put his own life on the line for his people. There are some wonderful articles online about him. Don't miss this one.
Chilling. Some time ago I did some freelance journalist work interviewing refugees of the massacres of the period. I heard stories I wish I could scrub from my mind, and I have twice interviewed serial killers. The movie was incredible, although a little grim.
A great contemporary film. Well-written, acted, and directed.
Had Don Cheadle and Sophie Okenedo been nominated for many prestigious awards would this movie have been viewed and raised awareness about whats going on not just in Rwanda, but Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Uganda? I don't think so. The BBC was the only channel in the world that covered what was going on and to me thats simply not enough, theres more value on human life than people think its just a...
This is a movie you catch for the history lesson, much more than the entertainment value. There's plenty to admire in the movie, though it's heavy subject matter. I'm glad I went last weekend, and felt ashamed I didn't know more about the million people systematically slaughtered during the mid-nineties in Rwanda's Holocaust of sorts. The lesson in the movie is why is makes sense for the UN and...
Predictably when you consider the subject matter, Hotel Rwanda is not a particularly uplifting movie. But it is an excellent one. Without giving anything away, Hotel Rwanda is the true story of a Hutu hotel manager of a four star hotel in Kigali who converted the hotel at which he worked into a refugee camp for Hutus and Tutsis during the 1994 massacre (mostly by machete) that slaughtered about...
My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrified by a film. One of the few times I have felt badly to be an American-the depiction of us standing idly by while this horror happened unnerved me.
Hotel Rwanda (2004) receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 3.14 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #470 movie of all time, #18 movie from 2004 and #275 Drama movie of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 225 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the movie ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other movies ranked, click on the link...
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A sobering and heartfelt tale about massacre that took place in Rwanda while most of the world looked away.
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Hotel Rwanda (DVD - 2004)
My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrified by a film. One of the few times I have felt badly to be an American-the depiction of us standing idly by while this horror happened unnerved me.