Powerful stuff.

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2005)

Hotel Rwanda tells the harrowing, and as far as the West is concerned, disgracefully story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel owner in war torn Rwanda who shelters over a 1,000 Tutsi refugees from certain death from the rampaging Hutu people in 1994.
Don Cheadle is an acting tour-de-force as he as proved when given the opportunity (Traffic) and not given roles which waste his considerable talent (Oceans whatever).The supporting cast is also excellent, Sophie Okonedo as Paul's wife, Nick Nolte as a helpless but strong U.N peacekeeper and a small, but excellent role, for Joaquin Phoenix as a U.S war reporter.
powerful, shocking, dramatic and uplifting, films like Hotel Rwanda should be compulsory viewing as a testament to man's inhumanity to man and the West chooses to ignore these events when it's Governments see no 'profit'