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Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda (2004) MGM/UA

Starring:
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte

Directed by:
Terry George

Whenever movies are used as a way to reflect the ugly human condition, the consensus for heartbreak and rage is always at a premium high. This certainly can be said for filmmaker Terry George and his blistering genocide saga Hotel Rwanda.

Don Cheadle, always the adventurous actor in whatever challenging skin he decides to climb into at any given moment, plays a Hutu hotel manager named Paul Rusesabagina who caters to the affluent European tourists and other VIP prototypes at the swanky Hotel Milles Collines. Of course being a black African, Paul’s existence is considered ordinarily meaningless but he does have some clout because of his work-related credentials at his posh workplace that serves his comfy white superiors.

But Paul realizes that the onslaught of crazed-minded and execution-happy regime that has taken over the political power in Rwanda may spell devastation for his Tutsi wife Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo) and her relatives. It certainly doesn’t help that the Rwandan militia would stop it nothing to rid its country of Tutsi refugees since it hates these people with a passion. Thus, Paul must negotiate and arrange to hide away as many of his family and friends as possible in an attempt to rescue them from their potential deadly fate at the hands of a ruthless bias government.

To say that Hotel Rwanda is a riveting account of desperation and hungry hope is an understatement indeed. George does a marvelous job at enhancing the impact of this tragic historical happening that besieged this African country over a decade ago where over one million people perished. And Cheadle, in an Oscar-caliber performance, is fearless as the African businessman who puts everything on the line in order to salvage the livelihood of a doomed people on the verge of inhumane elimination.

Truly a harrowing and important film not to dismiss.

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