A towering masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2014)

Terry George's Hotel Rwanda is not only a movie about the Rwandan genocide in 1994 that lasted 100 days but it is a movie where hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) (even though he is a Hutu) is defending Tutsi refugees including his wife Tatiana Rusesabagina (played by Sophie Okonedo) (while being protected by the United Nations) from the Hutu militia known as the Interhamwe. While watching this movie another movie entered my mind over an dover again and that was Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) because both movies were powerful stories told in an extraordinary way. The writing, casting and story was very intelligent , as well as the supporting cast which includes Nick Nolte as the commanding U.N. officer, Joaquin Phoenix as a press cameraman, and many more well done performances. Out of all the best Actor nominees at the 77th Academy Awards i think that any single one could have won instead of Jamie Foxx for his performance in Ray (2004) but really Cheadle deserved it the most because his performance was moving, and inspirational because he proved that a man must make tough decisions in his life, and that you have to do the right thing even if you don't feel so sure about it.