Hotel Rwanda (DVD) Reviews

Hotel Rwanda is a good solid drama and a film that is well worth seeing. It is directed by Terry George and the opening of thi film is both gripping and harrowing and it sets the scene wonderfully well for a roller coaster of a film. It focuses on the days leading up to the troubles in Rwanda between the two main tribes, The Hutu and the Tutsi ...  Read the complete review

My wife has wanted to watch this for a while. We have watched it before and I remembered it being a fantastic film. I relented last night and don't know why I haven't watched it sooner. The film is based on actual events, which always makes for a better story. Let's face it, you can't make up what happened. Set in 1994 it tells of ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Hotel Rwanda is one of those films when, as soon as you're done watching it, you want to rewind it and see everything all over again. This film is centered in Africa, where a group of rebels has targeted a racial group in Africa called the Tutsis. The movie shows that the US does not intervene. The acting is superb. I think that my favorite part ...  Read the complete review

Hotel Rwanda(2004) Directed by : Tarry George Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo Run Time: Appr. 2hrs --------------------------------------------------------------------- We are all damaged, damaged in a very brutal sense. We fight, we make violence and we call for peace also. This world is not just our ...  Read the complete review

A shocking storyline which is a true story about a man who fought impossible odds to save as many people as he could. This film is by Terry George.The film had three academy award nominations.It is rated a tweleve and contains moderate war images and strong langauage. A while back over ten years now some of the worst events ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda who courageously gave shelter to thousands of refugees during the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. This true story is a testament to one man's bravery in the face of horrifying hostility. IS IT ANY GOOD: This film is extremely powerful and ...  Read the complete review

When looking for an interesting movies to watch, what first captures my interest is the awards or recognition or nominations of the film. That's for sure I will not make mistake buying or renting the movie. Hotel Rwanda is one of these and find it worth watching. Based on the life story of how hotelier Paul Rusesabagina help save lives ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those films that I always intended to watch but never got round to until very recently. I am very glad that I can now say I have seen it because its a really good, if difficult to watch, film. Knowing that this film is set against a genuine background of such horrific genocide, you realise early on that it is not an easy ...  Read the complete review

Hotel Rwanda is truly an exceptional film. It really touched me and the drama is so real, it made me feel like i was actually there. It tells a lot of history about Rwanda in Africa. It acts as a backdrop and informs the viewers about the mad rivalry between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes and how they went on a killing rampage and slaughtered each ...  Read the complete review

"11 years ago in Rwanda, Hutu extremists slaughtered almost a million of their Tutsi countrymen with guns and machetes, while the Western World stood by and refused to intervene. Hotel Rwanda, the first mainstream film to approach the subject, tells the story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, played superbly by Don Cheadle who sheltered ...  Read the complete review

There are few example of ethnic cleaning such as when hitler tried to kill as many jews as possible so that he could eliminate them as "filth". When civilians and people of there own ethnicity tried to kill each other send a spark of disgust and hatred down most peoples spines but nothing was as cruel or disgusting then the deaths ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

** ”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 cockroaches. They are murderers. Rwanda is our Hutu land. We are the majority. They are a minority of ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

****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 Cheadle), a Hutu, is the manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Mille Colines. One ...  Read the complete review