Truly Sensational !!!

Rating: 8/10 (30 May 2008)

Hotel Rwanda is a fantastic film where one man (Paul Rusesabagina) uses his courage and determination to save over one thousand Tutsi refugees from the blood thirsty Hutu militants.
As the Hutus, armed with machetes, went round every street looking for Tutsis to brutally assault (and chop to pieces) all the Tutsis sought Paul's help. Paul then willingly turns his 4 star hotel into a Tutsi refugee camp to save all of them. Therefore all the pressure was on his shoulders to ensure that he was safe, his family were safe, his hotel staff were safe and every Tutsi was safe.
During the film I thought that the actors acted superbly, especially Don Cheadle who plays Paul Rusesabagina. I thought that he performed his role extremely well and just as good (maybe even better) than any Hollywood actor could have performed. Hotel Rwanda was nominated for 3 Oscars, 12 wins and 28 nominations and I thought that it was a real shame that they didn't go on to actually win anything.
The only flaw that I could find was that I believe, personally, that there needed to be a slightly more content of violence. My reason for this is because it would allow us to get a real insight into how bad the situation had escalated and it would send a more bigger message to the viewers and make them go away and think about what had happened. But apart from that i enjoyed all 117 minutes of it.