It's a Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2005)

So how do you go about making a movie that explains, in enough detail to please everyone, the effects of hundreds of years of European influence, the modern day influence of arms sales from competing European nations to various warring factions, the influence of the UN, United States, civil war and what caused them, etc. etc. - and all of it in a time period that people will be willing to sit through? I think the events dealt with in this movie are far more complicated in their history and causes than people know and some of the criticism is outrageous. I'm waiting for the "UN is a Trojan Horse on our shore's" comments to start. A UN Propagand film - are you serious? and as for the accuracy comments
so the makers of this movie did what hundreds of other movie makers have done in the depiction of complicated events, they used composite characters and altered the time line to make the movie flow. there wasn't one or two Hutu generals - there were a dozen or more and he had to know what to bribe each of them with to get cooperation and protection - but it would have been too complicated to try to depict all of them.
I don't think this movie is the new Schindler's list but I think they did a masterful job depicting the horror these people were faced with and their miraculous survival despite the threat from a murderous mob that was in real life right outside the gate of the hotel.