a moving story

Rating: Null/10 (1 February 2005)

"Hotel Rwanda" is a valuable film. I did not realize the scope of the tragedy in Rwanda when it was happening. I feel sad and guilty that Americans did not intervene when these massacres were happening.
Don Cheadle and the actress who played his wife were both excellent. Neither one overacted. Their emotions rang true.
However, the production values on the film were not good. It wasn't very well written, either. And some of the acting was not convincing. (For example, Nick Nolte's performance was uneven.) It's too bad that the quality of the overall movie wasn't better so that this movie could have made more of an impact. I would compare this film to "The Killing Fields", but that film's direction, cinematography, and writing were of higher quality.