Hotel Rwanda
Paul Rusesabagina is managing the upscale Hotel Milles Collines in the city of Kigali when the genocide begins. He is Hutu. His wife is Tutsi. And in the beginning he is only willing to protect his own family. His mind changes when the atrocities escalate. And he turns the hotel into a refugee camp to secure the survival of more than 1,200 souls.
13 May 1971, South Africa
26 March 1979, Phokeng, North West Province, South Africa
11 August 1968, London, England, UK
9 July 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
30 July 1948, Casablanca, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
1 October 1962, Nigeria
1971, Diepkloof, Gauteng, South Africa
26 January 1955, Padua, Veneto, Italy
8 February 1941, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
28 October 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 07, 2007
This is a solid film, but it is the truth that holds the power, not the direction.July 14, 2007
The film belongs to Don Cheadle as Paul and, not surprisingly, he walks away with it.May 05, 2007
The filmmakers want to respect history and not exploit it as so much slasher movie fodder.August 17, 2010
potentially fantastic material...unfortunately, [Terry] George's attempt is too mired in movie-of-the-week sensibilities...to do any justice to its subject matterJanuary 07, 2005
The great strength of Hotel Rwanda is that it's not about superhuman heroism but simply about human decency.September 24, 2010
Like "Schindler's List," "Hotel Rwanda" shows how the madness of genocide and war converted one man's context of wealth and success from capitalism to humanitarianism. Don Cheadle honors Paul Rusesabagina by tapping his brave face and internal rage.January 07, 2005
The almost forgotten but all too real African genocide documented in Hotel Rwanda hits us as suddenly and as hard as it does Paul Rusesabagina, the accidental hero played so masterfully by Don Cheadle.September 26, 2005
Showing traces of the well-meaning paternalism that dogs many Western films about Africa, Hotel Rwanda doesn't go far enough in indicting Europeans and Americans for protecting their own while failing to intervene in time to stop the mass killings.April 16, 2009
Don Cheadle gives a beautifully restrained tour de force performance as a singular voice of reason at the epicenter of writer/director Terry George's depiction of Rwanda's outbreak of genocide in 1994 when Hutu militias slaughtered one million Tutsis withJanuary 14, 2005
Move past the big picture, of race hatred, arbitrary maps and guilt over what the UN and the West can't or won't do, and find the human story within the inhumanity of war.January 07, 2005
It has a genuine power: the ability of film to beam light onto dark days of history, making it impossible for us to look away, reminding us of what we should never forget.June 24, 2006
There's a tidiness and sense of convenience in the film's stock characterisations and button-pushing plotting that detracts from its impact. The film doesn't just contrive to contain the slaughter, but also its own anger.