Hotel Rwanda DVD

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Drama - Director: Terry George - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over more

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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...
more...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 defenceless 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.





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A hotel to die for...
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by 6chris6

Advantages: A true story of heroic proportions.
Disadvantages: That it happened at all.

...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 ... Read review

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19.03.2006
No room at the inn
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by sunmeilan

Advantages: Superb acting, deeply moving story
Disadvantages: It really happened and we all let it

...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 ... Read review

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10.12.2007
Hotel Rwanda will open your eyes...
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by CaptainDisaster

Advantages: Excellent performances by Cheadle and Okonedo, compelling (if disturbing) subject matter
Disadvantages: Not quite the classic it could have been

...intervene.) 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 ... Read review

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22.08.2006
Where there's life there's hope
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by SnakePlissken

Advantages: excellent performances, radical, realistic, educational, strong morality play
Disadvantages: distressing viewing

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 ... Read review

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23.06.2006
A country plunged into disaster!
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by dempsey_review

Advantages: true story
Disadvantages: none

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 ... Read review

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11.10.2005
He saved so many lives
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by mehmoou101

Advantages: dramatics true story-superb acting and sound quality
Disadvantages: none

...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 ... Read review

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18.08.2008
Modern Day Oscar Schindler
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by hotspur_blue

Advantages: True story, doesn't rely on gore
Disadvantages: Compromised by being a 12

...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 ... Read review

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07.03.2006
One Of The Best Films You'll Ever See
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by beer_spy

Advantages: Brilliant Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: none

...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 ... Read review

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09.08.2006
Hotel Rwanda
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by finerain

Advantages: An amazing movie!
Disadvantages: None

...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. ... Read review

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21.05.2006
Please watch this film
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by Evan01

Advantages: eye opening and moving. Very interesting movie
Disadvantages: None apart from the film will make you think

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 ... Read review

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19.04.2006
Hotel for the people
Review of Hotel Rwanda DVD by Laurakate18

Advantages: Beautifully directed
Disadvantages: disturbing images

...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. ... Read review

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