Hotel Rwanda
(2004)
8 years ago via Rotten Tomatoes
Okay I finally found the reveiw for Hotel Rwanda. I also found some other stuff I think I'll post throughout the week
wow, it dosn't get much more disturbing then this. It is hard to believe that somthing could happen like this, and American's hardly even knew about it. Americans were to involved in the OJ Simpson murder case, to even realize that thousands of people where being murdered, which tells you a little something about our culture...... Anyway the movie is about Paul Rusesabagina a man who single handedly saved hundreds of lives. The story is a true one and a sad one at that, about two cultures. One of these were Tustis and the other were Hutus. When Rwanda was settled by Europe, the Tutis, the lighter skined of the two were treated much better then the Hutus. The Hutus were slaves for the Europeans and the Tutis, and were starved and put to work for many years. After the Europeans left Rwanda, they left the Hutus in charge. The Hutus seeking regenge would gather in mobs and groups of guns and plenty of knives, to kill every last Tutis, they espeically targeted the children, to wipe out the next generation. This is where Paul Rusesabagina comes into the story, Paul is the manager of a hotel, and when people start to die, he takes in close to 800 Tutis while all the whites are being evacuated by the UN. The scariest part in the movie for me, was right when the violence started getting bad, the UN evacuated saying "We are peace keepers, not peace makers". Soon people hiding in the hotel start to run out of supplies, so sadly Paul Rusesabagina, has to go out into the destroyed remains of his once beautiful country, to go and find one of the men who started this mess, who also carries all of the supplys for the hotel. While out he sees countless Tutis prisinors many of them children. I am happy to say it has some what of a happy ending, besides the fact that 1 million people half children died during this period that couldnt be more then a year. The actual movie itself was pretty good. I mean what else do you need in a film? Touching story, good characters, and whole lot of death. Also during some scenes it did create a whole lot of suspence. If you plan on seeing this movie, have a great movie watching expirience!