Incredible movie

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2007)

I can't believe this movie got made. It is so searing in its portrayal of man's inhumanity to man including ours. I felt so guilty that I had had no idea of the true horror of this civil war. It actually reinforces the accusation that the Western world never cares much what happens in Africa. Our media barely covers the wars, famines, droughts until millions of people are dead and then it seems like it is too late for the U.S. politicians to do anything. Great, great movie. Don Cheadle is a master actor. I wish I would see him in more films. Another thought I had about this movie is how it reminded me of the holocaust. America sat by and allowed 6 million Jews, Catholics and gypsies to die before intervening and it had nothing to do with the annihilation of the these people that got us finally into WWII. My own country embarrasses me. When will we ever use our great power to help others rather than accumulate as many material things that we can before we die? Why are we leading news broadcasts with someone like Paris Hilton instead of Nelson Mandela or the Dalai Lama?