Konterr Brilliant and touching

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

DrkHuggzHorror This the first movie about Tutsi slaughter that i've watched; I usually watch documentaries about this terrible point in history. John Hurt is magnificent in this role. In fact, magnificent is too little an adjective to describe his portrayal of Christopher. This film isn't about the true gore of the genocide but more about the anxiety, the impending doom. With the Hutu looming on the outskirts of the school grounds you truly feel how trapped and defenseless the Tutsi were. I liked how they didn't exploit what happened there! Its an excellent movie, and made me cry. I wasn't too happy with the unspoken feelings at the end of the movie, however. I really thought the teacher should've begged Mari's forgiveness for leaving her behind but he never did. It was obvious she felt no animosity towards him though.

robdude The film brings home the self created impotence of the international community. Dogs are shot by soldiers to prevent them eating the bodies of people they have to stand by and watch being slaughtered. The true facts (although the characters are fictional) of the situation are as awful as they are bizarre. Portraying this on screen along with the humanity in the face of death was done superbly and in a very direct human way.The illustration of how situations such as this gather and how people, once considered friends, can be so corrupted is achieved with a deft hand.

jmoore964-1 Both Hotel Rwanda and this film stuck with me in terms of the sounds. In Hotel Rwanda it was the metallic grate as they dragged their pangas (machetes) along the road. In this film it was the whistles blowing. Both sounds signaled that death was approaching. It must have been utterly terrifying for the victims to hear those sounds and know that they were about to be killed.The scene where the man asks the UN soldier to kill them rather than leave them to be tortured was the most difficult for me. When the soldier refused, the man then begs him to at least kill the children, to save them from suffering. One can only imagine how that soldier felt. He had to say no, but knew what he was leaving all those people to face when the terrorist swept in.This film, Hotel Rwanda and Sometime in April all complement each other in telling the horrors that the rest of the world ignored.

Claudio Carvalho In April, 1994, the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic priest Christopher (John Hurt) and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege of the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.After the magnificent 1994 "Hotel Rwanda", the world has the chance to see another testimony of the genocide in Rwanda, where eight hundred thousand (800,000) people was killed between April and July of 1994 under the total absence of protection or intervention of the United Nation. This powerful and touching true story was filmed in the real locations with the support of the survivors of the massacre. John Hurt is fantastic in the role of a suffered Catholic priest that dedicated his life to the people of this poor country, and Hugh Dancy is also amazing with an excellent interpretation. There are magnificent lines, but I personally was moved when Joe asks Christopher how much pain can a human being take, when he sees the mother being killed by machete strikes with her baby son by one killer of the militia. The questions about God's role the children ask Father Christopher are also great. The feelings of Rachel about the differences between the situation in Bosnia and in Rwanda are very sincere and the sacrifice of Christopher is something very beautiful in this film. The last question to the UN representative "- How many acts of genocide does it take to make a genocide?" in the procedures, regulations, viewpoint of whatever from UN closes this sad but recommended movie with golden key. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Tiros em Ruanda" ("Shots in Rwanda")