Hotel Rwanda (DVD)

Hotel Rwanda is set in the 1994 genocide of Tutsi tribe. Over a million dead in one month. One man uses political favours, quick wit and survival instinct to save thousands from death that is waiting on the streets. Hotel des Mille Collines is upmarket hotel, the best in Rawanda. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is the manager. He earns a good wage, his children and wife live a good life from the money he gets at the hotel. Opening scenes show uneasy atompshere in the country. Paul a Hutu goes to the local leader of his tribe, he is told to join an extremist organisation, fearing for the worst he thinks of United Nations troops as ...  Read the complete review

I knew this film would blow me away, long before I saw it. Just from the trailers and the reviews I had read at the time of its release, I knew I had to see it. The only question for me was how effective would this film actually be in reflecting what happened. Story Imagine switching on the radio to hear nothing but hateful speeches about yourself, your family or even your neighbours, being described as "cockroaches". Imagine hearing calls for people to come together to fight for a cause that is simply to destroy you and anyone like you. Hotel Rwanda recalls how just this happened in 1994, when militants set about to kill all Tutsi ...  Read the complete review

Paul 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 he works, along with tourists and refugees. When the UN forces arrive, Paul thinks they are all safe; little does he know that for anyone who is African, their troubles have only just begun, because the UN cannot or ...  Read the complete review

In the grand scheme of things, perhaps the most heinous crime of all is genocide. History is littered with attempts at ethnic cleaning, none more notorious than The Holocaust during World War 2. Crimes against a whole race are enough to leave a shiver down the longest of spines and more recent events in the country of Yugoslavia that was, should remind us that the possibility of murder on the biggest of scales is as present as it ever was. In terms of the big screen response to this then “Schinder’s List” would be the best known of movies that confront the issue and the more recent “Hotel Rwanda” tells a similar tale from events in the African continent. The ...  Read the complete review

======= The 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 his Milles Collines hotel. ======== The Cast ======== Don Cheadle plays Paul ...  Read the complete review