Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Rating: 95%
Okay so shortly after I saw Woman in Black, at my grandparents' we watched a second movie which turned out to be this film; Hotel Rwanda.

Plot: Paul Rusesabagina is the manager of the hotel Mille Collines in Rwanda where the tension between the people of Hutu and Tutsi has started a war in Rwanda. As the situation worsens, Paul and his family witness neighbors being violently executed, and when it officially becomes a civil war, Paul has to make so many bribes that he barely negotiates the safety of his family and all of his neighbors. He takes them all to the hotel where he ends up using it to protect more refugees while continuing to bribe and ask more favors in order to keep the hotel safe.

This is just an emotional and powerful film. If it can be summed up into just one word, that would would be brutal. And boy was it. In this film we see a lot of genocide, fear, and suspense that makes it really hard to watch. I mean I for one just hate watching all the genocide and stuff because it makes me wish something happened long before we are ever even half an hour into the film which resulted in all the guys that caused this genocide to get ripped to shreds and made into trophies. Yes I know that's dark, but so what? Whether it's to kill the guys who are causing the genocide or to just help the refugees get the frick out of there, this movie can get you so much that you're left really wishing something was done about it long before the civil war really started. But nonetheless, it was a very well made film that also had from really strong acting and as far as I know had some good educational values.

Actors/Characters:
Don Cheadle/Paul Rusesabagina: Cheadle did an excellent job as Paul Rusesabagina. He really showed what the character was going through and how he kept having a struggle between worrying about his family and worrying about the hotel full of refugees pretty darn well. When it comes to the competition between him and Jamie Foxx in Ray for Best Actor I will admit that Foxx had a much more creative and altogether original character, but that doesn't stop Cheadle's performance in this movie to be any less awesome.
Sophie Okonedo/Tatiana Rusesabagina: When it came to being emotional, Okonedo was the best. Whether it was watching her neighbors getting kicked out of their houses, protecting her kid and friends, and let's not forget how she was when Paul was asking her to make that particular promise, she just displayed it all extremely well and believable pretty much the whole time.

 
Music: The music was very good, i think it helped bring in most of the really brutal scenes in the film.

And that's my review for Hotel Rwanda, it gives us a powerful and brutal story with spectacular acting that will probably get you every time you watch it.