Hotel Rwanda (DVD)

...you and anyone like you. Hotel Rwanda recalls how just this happened in 1994, when militants set about to kill all Tutsi people, as though they were pests that needed to be eradicated. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) runs a posh four star hotel, called Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines, in Rwanda. He is a businessman and family man, concerned only with making money and keeping good contacts to protect his family. As far as he can see, the UN officials ...
...will be around to ensure everyone's safety. When he hears the threats on the radio and sees one of his own neighbours being arrested, accused of being a traitor, he is naturally concerned, but remains confident that peace will be restored. He sees no reason to intervene or go out of his way to protect people outside his family. But when he finds himself burdened by numerous Tutsi refugees on the run from the militia his own views are called into ...

Ayesha- 08.07.2009 · Read full review
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...Plot== The film follows hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina played by Don Cheadle, he is a Hutu and is married to Tatiana, who he loves with all his heart, however she is a Tutsi and the Tutsis or cockroaches as they are called throughout Rwanda. When the Tutsi rebels kill someone high up, the Hutu's begin to kill all Tutsi's in Rwanda, it being one of the largest genocide's in history. Paul to save the life of thousands of Tusi's, houses them within ...
...==My Opinion== Hotel Rwanda is a rare kind of film, no one can moan about the length of the film, no one can moan about the story within the film, it is truly one of the best and hardest movies to watch. I recently sat down to watch it on television and I had to watch it in two goes not just because of the fact of the harsh nature o the film but the fact that I was watching it late at night. It is very hard to describe how powerful this movie actually ...

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...Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is the hotel manager of the Milles Collines a Belgian owned hotel in Rwanda. When civil war breaks out between the Hutu And the Tutsis (the two main tribes). The Hutu want to wipe the Tutsis from the face of the earth because when the Belgians colonised Rwanda they gave the best jobs to Tutsis and let them rule the country. Now that the Belgians are gone the Hutu who regard Rwanda as their land want revenge, which is stirred ...
...Okonedo) a Tutsis, uses the hotel to shelter both Hutu (not caught up in the fervour) And Tutsis Refugees, He manages this by both bribes and influence. As the hotel fills with men, women and children Paul try's everything he can to keep them safe using money and whiskey to keep the local Hutu general on side in order to keep the rebels away and frantic phone calls abroad pleading for some kind of intervention. The UN who are led by the sympathetic ...

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...Rusesabagina likes his job as hotel manager and is a good husband and father to wife Tatiana and their three children. When a politically active friend of his warns him that the Hutus are ready to rise up against their neighbours, the Tutsis, he dismisses it as war talk. Little does he know that everyone's worst nightmare is about to happen and thousands of Tutsis are to be slain. Paul is forced to shelter his family and neighbours in the hotel where ...
...is when he leaves the hotel to find supplies and finds himself in the midst of a sea of bodies - all dead - men, women and children - and I utterly believed that I was watching a man in denial of what was in front of his face. Superb. Paul's wife, Tatiana, is played by Sophie Okonedo, and again is superb as a woman terrified for her family. Some of her best moments are when she is trying to find news of her brother and sister-in-law and their children ...

sunmeilan 10.12.2007 · Read full review
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...The story revolves around hotel House Manager Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a Hutu married to Tatiana, a Tutsi (Sophie Okonedo) who finds himself helping over a thousand refugees. He is not portrayed as a saintly figure by any means - in fact, his pragmatic and astute businessman persona reminded me very much of Schindler (indeed, the situation bears more than a few similarities to events preceding the World Wars, with an assassination sparking ...
...a Hutu working at the hotel who doesn't share Rusesabagina's tolerance of the "cockroaches", as the Tutsis are termed by the Hutu radio; a Red Cross worker; the President of Sabina, the Belgian company that owned the hotel, and an army General who helped Rusesabagina but not for any altruistic reasons. In fact, Rusesabagina surrounds himself with important people and pampers to their every whim in order to store up favours for his family if he ever ...

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Hotel Rwanda is a disturbing film to watch, much like the yesterday's news that it reports. I remember when my father was watching the new reports of Kosovo and the Racak Massacre in 1999, and how the horrifying events and the actions of these "evil men", as he called them sent him further into depression, just by watching the news. I think that watching Hotel Rwanda has had a similar effect on me. It is a film that has put me at the forefront of ...
...by Don Cheadle), a Rwandan Hotel owner who becomes a humanitarian hero in the midst of Rwanda's civil war in 1994. As the political turmoil of guerrilla warfare and an assassination of the president ignites the old racial divides between the Hutus and the Tutsis of Rwanda, the Hutu-ran state armies and interwhami militia begin an ethnic cleansing of all their Tutsi neighbours. Paul (who is a Hutu, but shares marriage to Tatiana, a Tutsi woman with ...

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Hotel Rwanda is one of the best true story's I have ever seen. It really does show you the horror and misfortune that goes un-noticed in some parts of the world. ------------- Plot Outline ------------- The story tells you of the worst genocide in African history, which took place in the country of Rwanda. Over a million people have been slaughtered in just a few short months, and no help is forthcoming. One man, a hotel manager plucks up the ...
...own family, by using his hotel as a refugee camp. Battling against incredible odds, with little help from the army, and his family and friends being murdered all around him, he is the only hope the refugees have. But time is running short, and death is knocking on every door. ------------ My Thoughts ------------ The movie is truly gripping with some most disturbing drama of events that you just won't believe could happen. It's a huge eye opener ...

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The first time I watched this I thought it was fiction I had no idea that it was a true story and couldn't believe it when someone told me that it was. It follows the story of Paul Rusesabagina who uses bribes and persuations to save over 1,200 Tutsi civilians during the Rwandan Genocide who were being slaughter by extremist Hutu militias. This film is not for the lighthearted as it shows some awful and shocking scenes but that is the main point ...
...was not happening in 1994 and some of the horrors they let happen. Don Cheadle's performance is excellent and it is a fantastic movie. It educates consumers on the Rwandan Genocide and shows what one great man did with all his heart to save good people. A definite buy on DVD unless you a very lighthearted in which case it may not be a good purchase. ...

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...all the foreign nationals, the hotel becomes a refuge for those being hunted. Before they were evacuated, the hotel housed a team of news journalist. Paul's first hope was that the news pictures would cause such outrage that peacekeeping forces would come flooding in. The response from the journalist was that people would think 'that's horrible!' Then carry on with their tea. The response wasn't far off. Paul has to use all his powers of persuasion ...
...them in his hotel. Hotel Rwanda is not the gore fest you would expect from a film with a machette waving army, but has moments of real tension and fear for the lives of the tutsi people. Time and time again it seems their fate is sealed, but for intervetion from paul, who has to make deals with anyone who will help, whether their motives are good or not. Hotel Rwanda shows how one mans love for his family and friends, can inspire real courage. ...

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...named Paul Rusesabagina, a successful hotel manager who saved and sheltered many lives and gave away everything he had for HOPE. Over Ten years ago, one of the worlds most devastating wars happened with the civil war against the Hutu's and the Tutsi s. The Hutu's are trying to kill all of the Tutsi es because they blame them for everything bad that has happened. Over a million lives were claimed over a three month period and the rest of the world ...
...to take action but the hotel manage gave everything to help the hopeless. An impressive performance by Don Cheadle who plays the hotel manager and delivers a superb performance hitting everyones hearts and feelings. A amazing sound deliverance and inspiring true story which should be used in the world today to tell people that bad things still happed out there. A critic from england says this... "hotel Rwanda is one of the most dramatic films ...

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...the manager of a posh hotel in Rwanda for rich Rwandian's and western tourists tries everything he can think to save his family and eventually as many Tutsis people from the Hutu militia after the western relief force only evacuates the tourists caught up in the civil war . He uses all the favours he has built up before the conflict began and desperately tries get to everyone to safety behind the Tutsis rebel lines to a UN aid camp. The story already ...
...events in countrys that dont have nature resources that are highly vauled by the nations that have the power to stop such cruel acts against innocent civilians. Even now it can make you think would the US of gone into Iraq if they wasnt oil there? It's not the easiest film to watch and some of the sense's can make disgusted of your governments actions in Rwanda but the strength of the actors and the brilliant direction helps show how in the face ...

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...by turning a small rwandan hotel into a shelter for the homeless tutsi's, despite being a target for the hate filled hutu's. An emotionally draining film, that I won't forget in a hurry. Maybe not quite the standard of some of my favourite's but the movie will leave an everlasting scarr on my mind due to its true story line of horriffic modern day injustice. ...

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...is based around a posh hotel that turns its self upside down to become a sort of camp for those people whos lives are at risk. The film shows you how it takes one brave person to make a difference and make a difference he does. This film is a must see for all generations of a family but beware there are some very disturbing images. ...

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I went to watch Hotel Rwanda as it had been in my DVD collection for a couple of weeks and there nothing else on TV. I was not expecting much, but I now have a new favourite film. Don Cheadle is amazing as the lead character and Nick Nolte supports him well. The story outlines how one man saves hundreds of persecuted people from the mass genocide of one half of Rwanda. Thankfully, the story does not centre on the bloodshed and slaughter that occured ...

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