Hotel Rwanda

Speaking as someone conversant with the Rwanda genocide, Hotel Rwanda does an excellent job in bringing out the humanity (and lack thereof) of this tragedy. However the reality is the massacre was much more brutal, violent and horrifying. Don Cheadle and... Full review

This movie was an outstanding account of the 1994 genocide and I would recommend that all should go and see it. My only complaint is that the movie is not extremely gory. I am a firm believer that when history is... Full review

This Movie will change you knowing that it is true was a wake up call cheadle was so amazing that you will forget he is just an actor you will think he is the real Paul Rusesabagina very tragic an true... Full review

This movie shows what movie making should be about. Intense realism. Real depth of human emotions. Courage to do what is right not expediant. I loved this movie ALOT. As you read this review, thousands upon thousands in Africa are in... Full review

First of all this is a TRUE STORY! and a story that needed to be told. The acting by Don Cheadle was PERFECT!!!! I myself have seen this movie 4 times. Each time I saw it it got better. This is... Full review

I have never felt so touched since Gladitor, but this thing has happened while I am alive and maybe made me feel even more touch about the whole thing. This movie is just too much, just life is! Its too much... Full review

It is amazing that we can stand by idlely and allow people to be systematically murdered. It truly is unconscionable. We must come together to stop these types of horrors.... Full review

Great acting not only by Don Cheadle but also by Sophie Okonedo, who played her role so convincingly that she should has been at least nominated for an academy award. This movie was a real eye opener for me. I never... Full review

I saw Hotel Rwanda but, I bought it first. I saw it and I cried it is very sad. I was upset after the movie. I never cry in movies. This, movie is one of my favorite movies of all time.... Full review

Excellent compassion, graphics well done and startling. More credit should be given to the producer and actors of this film. The world ignored this calamity and it would seem that the people who hand out Awards have also turned their backs... Full review

Sometimes it is only a slight squint of an eye or the beginning of a furrow on his brow, but Don Cheadle gives one of the best acting jobs I have seen in a long time. This might be because most of his pictures are simple action type films and he is just part of a larger, more famous cast. ... Full Review

With award winning performances from Don Cheadle and a superbly clever script, this really is a film worthy of your recognition. What is more effective about this film is the not what the viewer does see, but what they don't see, just trying to imagine what actually took place can send a viewer running to the toilet with their hands over their mouth. ... Full Review

Hotel Rwanda" radically downplays the actual gore, which is observed either through a fog or from a distance. A charming wheeler-dealer adept at trading favors, Paul thinks fast on his feet. ... Full Review

He knows which prominent foreign guests need special catering, and is acutely aware that he must also grease the palms of some of Rwanda's elite military and political leaders to keep things running smoothly at the hotel. They are frozen in the last desperate moments of their agony, hands pleading, heads cradled by arms, skulls cracked open by merciless machetes. ... Full Review

Cheadle has an Oscar nomination for best actor. He's a capable, assured, intuitive character, committed to a smoothly run, professional operation. ... Full Review

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More stripped down than "Hotel Rwanda," "Sleeping Dogs" and "Sometimes in April," "Black Out" focuses purely on the exploits of a French journo, Antoine (Lespert), and his local fixer, Clement (Cyril Guei, equally compelling), as they attempt to cover the... ... Full Article

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