Starring:
Don Cheadle - Paul Rusesabagina
Sophie Okonedo - Tatiana Rusesabagina
Nick Nolte - Colonel Oliver
Joaquin Phoenix - Jack
Cara Seymour - Pat Archer
Directed by:
Terry George
Terry George
Don Cheadle gives a captivating performance
**** Stars
Hotel Rwanda is about the rare courage inside a hotel operator that will save the lives of over 1000 people in the horrible genocide of Rwanda back in 1994.
Paul is left in charge of a hotel after his boss has left the country. He must make sure he treats everyone including officials with respect for insurance purposes. He realizes that if a crisis does occur, he needs someone high up to be able to bail him out. After their president is assassinated, rebels of the Hutus blame this assassination along with other crimes on the Tutsis, another tribe in Rwanda. They are very similar. There is one scene where a cameraman (Phoenix) is at a bar and asks two people who look almost the same who they are. One replies she is a Hutus and the other is a Tutsis. It is hard to understand why some can live and others must not.
At the end of the genocide, over 800,000 are killed, many others wounded. The film, at its PG-13 rating seemed impossible to be able to capture the horror of what happened. But director Terry George does not use graphic violence. He uses the emotions that come from the actors. Cheadle and Okonedo are absolutely stunning. They are able to bring fear and love onto the screen when needed. This is a film of rare courage by one man whose only job was to run a hotel. And it is portrayed without a flaw. Hotel Rwanda is flawless and one of the best movies of the year.
Paul is left in charge of a hotel after his boss has left the country. He must make sure he treats everyone including officials with respect for insurance purposes. He realizes that if a crisis does occur, he needs someone high up to be able to bail him out. After their president is assassinated, rebels of the Hutus blame this assassination along with other crimes on the Tutsis, another tribe in Rwanda. They are very similar. There is one scene where a cameraman (Phoenix) is at a bar and asks two people who look almost the same who they are. One replies she is a Hutus and the other is a Tutsis. It is hard to understand why some can live and others must not.
At the end of the genocide, over 800,000 are killed, many others wounded. The film, at its PG-13 rating seemed impossible to be able to capture the horror of what happened. But director Terry George does not use graphic violence. He uses the emotions that come from the actors. Cheadle and Okonedo are absolutely stunning. They are able to bring fear and love onto the screen when needed. This is a film of rare courage by one man whose only job was to run a hotel. And it is portrayed without a flaw. Hotel Rwanda is flawless and one of the best movies of the year.
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