Advantages: Excellent performances by Cheadle and Okonedo, compelling (if disturbing) subject matter Disadvantages: Not quite the classic it could have been
" When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say: read our history. The Tutsi were collaborators for the belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroache ...
Advantages: Great performance from Cheadle and a story that needs to be told Disadvantages: Feels more like a TV drama than a 'proper' film
In 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda was torn apart by racial hatred. The leading Hutu tribe butchered almost a million of the minority Tutsis in the biggest attempted genocide since the Second World War. The west turned a blind eye and the UN even r ...
Advantages: Incite into a forgotten war Disadvantages: Obviously quite dark
Hotel Rwanda is rather like Shindler List in that it focuses on one mans attempt to try and save lives, at great risk to himself, in a time of crisis.
It is now more than ten years ago since the Rwanda war and so Hotel Rwanda is able to view events fro ...
****This opinion reveals minor details about the plot.***
Directed by Terry George, this brilliant, if harrowing film is set in the days leading up to and including the Hutu/Tutsi conflict in 1994 in Rwanda. It is based on a true story.
Paul (Don Ch ...
Advantages: Excellent performances by Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo Disadvantages: May be too disturbing for some
The first thing that I must say is that this is an excellent film. You must not be put off by the content of the film and must concentrate on the thrilling story and bravery of Paul Rusesabagina. The film is based on the unbelievable events of 1994. ...
