Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

citzsold I have been showing this film in Sociology since I first watched it. Even after multiple viewings, I can't help but tear up multiple times, when I watch it. As of yet, I haven't been able to finish "Hotel Rwanda". A dislike for biographies is a part of that. Part of it is the "happy" feeling at the end, when you realize that he helped people (similar to Schindler's end scene with the rocks placed on his grave). We lose track in some dramas based on tragic events, rationalizing the tragedy by cheering the heroes, and walking away. We feel an uplift, but we forget that the victims are still out there, the loss is real, and the events can be repeated if we don't work to stop it. The film is not perfect, although Idris Elba carries this film so well. The scenery is Rwanda, the actors are African. This is not polished because reality is not polished. It is a beautiful thing. The fact that Idris Elba was unknown when this film was made was so much more powerful, because no one got excited to see "that actor". You took him as he was, and the story carried the day, not the actors. The enemy was faceless, because it was monolithic. Whites were pushed to the side, because this truly was an African event. If you want to watch a Rwanda genocide film, this is the one.

diomsidney This Movie is fantastic but i wonder if those who watched it really got the message Rwandans of today are sending.No 1:who is to blame there are many ways of viewing it. My way is those who call themselves the no names well that Pretentiously united body and those who sold the weapons and moral support to the killers. And also those who came in at the end you know to help. like i said i'm calling no names we all know who.No 2: Who Started it this one has only one way of seeing it. so i'll proceed. No name alias SNAILGLEB we'll call him so if your name is SNAILGLEB i'm sorry. or the reverse of the name it's a coincidence comes in between a group of people and since he is unhappy decides to make them unhappy. he goes to a quiet place and decides to to make them look like his unhappy and crappy place.No 3:DO all the above circumstances have consequences on RWANDA once again one answer yes. it also has consequences on Africa because it has shown SNAILGLEB and his brothers and sisters no names that she can go to any body's house and rape their wives and call it ACCIDENTAL PENETRATION and still get away with it. so like all rapists there is no stop sign.this review is not meant to incite hatred on anyone. also the above was intent on making the movie a great experience on the audience. Long Live Africa

longislandlloyd Normally, I would write how a movie was so weak and boring that I turned off the set or spent most of the time sorting my clothes. But this time I turned off the TV because the movie was SO GOOD. How is that possible? I was sickened by the brutal, sadistic, genocidal torture and murders committed by the Hutus against their fellow Rwandans. The movie played like a documentary and was so vivid and heart-wrenching that most civilized people could hardly bear to see how uncivilized people can act. I highly recommend this movie, but not to the faint of heart. I wish I could have stayed to the end, but I got the message loud and clear. The American government and the rest of the civilized world did nothing to prevent or stop this holocaust. And the U.N., as usual, was inept and overwhelmed. Perhaps America could have stopped the genocide. The Rwandan army was mostly just a rag-tag group of cut-throats armed with machetes. They would have been no match for the U.S. military. But our president stood idly by and let the murders wage on. It was not in his political or economic interest to save these innocent people from annihilation.And who was that U.S. president who turned his back on a half million innocent African people?? You'll have to see the movie to find out.'Hint: It was NOT the media's favorite whipping boy, George W. Bush.

drv-3 As a career Army Officer, I'm no stranger to the horrors of war. I'm ashamed to say that like most Americans, in the past I've written off Africa in my mind as a bankrupt continent, unable to govern itself effectively, led by corrupt, murderous thugs only interested in lining their own pockets at the expense of their population.However, this movie reminded me that regardless of our nationality, race or religion we are all human beings with hopes, dreams and ideals. How can it be that in these modern times, human beings can be so cruel, foul and inhumane to systematically slaughter over a million people simply because of some artificial class distinction invented by Belgian colonizers? I'll never be able to purge from my mind the scene of the killers sharpening their machete blades by dragging it along the street prior to pouncing on unarmed men, women and children.For me, this movie forever changed my view of Africa and its population. I can only hope that next time (and somewhere in this world there will be a next time) the West will intervene and prevent such a slaughter.