Great, just not "PG-13" Material

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2005)

This was an amazing movie, incredibly made, and is definitely Oscar- material. But I just wanted to say, this movie should NOT be rated PG-13. I went to see it last week (I'm fifteen) and was sobbing throughout the whole feature. It is really thematic and intense, and, although I'm glad I saw it, it should have been R. They never show too much, just enough to get the story across, but some of the scenes are really emotional and disturbing. If you think you're up to it, by all means see "Hotel Rwanda" but don't bring ten or twelve year olds unless they're really mature. "Hotel Rwanda" puts small children in dangerous situations and has many dead bodies. It is kind of telling that our rating system puts movies like "Billy Elliot," "The Matrix," and "Motorcycle Diaries" in the R category because of homosexuality, swearing, violence and leprosy but won't rates a movie about real-life murder and genocide PG-13.