Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8/10

Starring : Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Fana Mokoena
Director : Terry George
Running Time : 118 mins

Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle) is a hotel manager who fins himself having to home over a thousand refugees in Rwanda when the Hutu's start targeting Tutsi's for death. All attempts to get help from the Western powers have gone unanswered, so Rusesabagina has to rely on his own ingenuity to keep his people alive whilst preventing the Hutu insurgences from killing any of the people under his protection.

This is a nicely shot movie which takes us to the heart of the violence in Rwanda without relying on simple warfare, By portraying a more human side to the struggle, Terry George has managed to achieve a belieavable view of the horrors that took place in the early nineties while clearly portraying just how indifferent most of the West was to the events as they happened.

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