Hotel Rwanda (2005)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring:
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Running Time: 122

The world closed its eyes
Hotel Rwanda is very hard to watch. But I recommend people to watch it, for their own sakes on educating themselves on one of the most ignored genocides in recent history.

The genocide that happened in Rwanda was between the two main "tribes",... more

one of the best movies of the year
This was one of the best movies of 2004. It was about a hotel manager who took in many of the tutsi's. He saved many people. This takes place during the Rwanda genocide. Don Cheadle does a mezmerizing performance. This is gone a put Cheadle on the map.... more

HUMBLING MASTERPIECE
To be honest, as my DVD churned to a start I wondered if I'd really enjoy a mawkish and thus possibly politically-correct Oscar hopeful related to a civil war in an African country.

Ten minutes into the film I had no memory of my doubts.... more

Love amidst chaos
Don Cheadle's performace is amazing in this movie, as is Sophie Okonedo's. What stood out for me in this was their characters' incredible love for each other. While madness ensued, and they were fighting to survive, their family remained most important... more

Learn From History or Repeat It?
A big rap from the few mainstream writers critical of Hotel Rwanda, intimated again today in the New York Times, is that it was not graphic enough in depicting the scenes of genocide in Rwanda. Huh??? How pathetic an attitude is that?? And what does... more

Engaging African War Drama
I remember back in the summer of 1994 when the Rwanda genocide first came to my attention, i picked up a newspaper turned to page 30 or something and saw a tiny article describing the deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of people, what struck me... more

Moral man in an immoral world
Hotel Rwanda starred Don Cheadle who played Paul Rusesabagina, Hutu man in charge of a four star Beligan hotel who protected nearly 1,200 Tutsi refugees from being massacre by his fellow tribemen during the Rwandan Civil War. This was the war which our... more

Too-tame treatment of a tragic time
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is hotel manager at a swanky 4-star Belgian report in Rwanda in 1994. When Hutu-Tutsi violence begins, he must use all of his charm, hotel resources and favors to save 1600 of his family and countrymen from brutal deaths... more

A tale that needs to be told over and over again.
Hotel Rawanda tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina who ended up making the hotel he ends up managing into a safe haven for Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rawandan genocide of Tutsi tribe members at the hands of Hutu armies during the mid-1990s.... more

tragic, moving, and exceptional.
Hotel Rwanda is an inexplicably exceptional, profoundly moving film that follows hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina [Don Cheadle] as he houses genocidal victims. Rusesabagina is a consummate professional, and this professionalism allows him the ability... more

Excellent Movie, 2 thumbs way up for Don Cheadle!
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen, and I have seen plenty. I am not a big fan of movies that show horrific and terrifying scenes of violence and oppresion, but when I heard that Don Cheadle was one of the main characters in the movie I... more

Watch this movie for humanity's sake
This movie is a testament to the power of film to relate the agonies of the human condition and to touch us with it. It tells a gripping story that is both powerful and true. You end up thinking deeply about the value of human life and the impact of human... more

Rwanda...A Story That Had to be Told!
There can be little doubt that the greatest human tragedy of 2004 was the Asian tsunami which killed some 300,000 people. In this one rumbling of the earth's crust, a great swathe of people have their lives snuffed out from Indonesia through Sri Lanka... more

How One Man Made a Difference
What the "Hotel Rwanda" is can be argued, but what cannot be dismissed is the power of this two hour movie about how one man can make a difference.

Is "Hotel Rwanda" a story about internal, contrived politics destroying a country? Or it is... more

The real Clinton legacy
I went to see this movie but couldn't hear a lot of the dialog with all the sniffling and sobbing of the audience as they watched the last holocaust of the 20th century. Ironically, when the lights came up after the credits, many of the sobbing masses... more

GO SEE ''SOMETIMES IN APRIL''
HOTEL RWANDA isa great movie.But please

to really know more about what happened

in Rwanda you want to check out Raoul

PECKS new movie ''SOMETIMES IN APRIL''

The director of the great Lumumba movie more

A truly great story, but imperfect execution...
First off, I applaud the filmmakers who recognized this as a true story that needed to be told. But upon leaving the theater, one can't help but feel that the movie failed to capture the enormity of the Rwandan genocide. Its tragically ironic that while... more

A powerful, moving film
This is a film that haunts you long after you've seen it. What happened in Rwanda in 1994 was genocide--and more shocking than the events themselves was the fact that the international community stood by and allowed it to happen. Hotel Rwanda portrays... more

a deeply powerful movie.....Don Cheadle is flawless
Don Cheadle (Out Of Sight, Oceans 11 and 12) stars as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who saves 1,200 Rwandian people in 1994 in his hotel from a fued between Hutus because they want all the Tutsis gone. Cheadle races to save his family and the people... more

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