A slapstick comedy about a five star hotel...of laughs! (Only if the slapsticks were machetes and laughs were hacked off limbs...)
I get it. Some stories need to be told, and there's a few messages to be learned here. Stand for what you believe, if no one is going to help you, you must help yourself, and if you see something that you don't think is right, you should help to try and stop it. I just don't think it's that entertaining sometimes.
Hotel Rwanda has a good cast - Don Cheadle (this generation's "Sidney Portier", as Shaun says), Joaquin Phoenix, and America's favorite drunkard mugshot poster child Nick Nolte, along with Dubaku from 24 and many other sufficient no names (Cheadle's wife in the film scored an Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role). All of the acting is on point and deserves the critical lauding that it received. Cheadle definitely deserved the Oscar nomination for best actor, and should have beat Jamie Foxx's 'Ray' for the award.
Overall, I thought the movie was...okay. Based on a true story, it's a mix of a depression (the movie is literally littered with innocent corpses), and an uplifting tone of hope. It won't leave you with a good feeling about the human race. I probably wouldn't watch it again, but wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to fans of history, dramas, true stories, etc. It's almost like a 'modern day' Schindler's List. Something you should see at least once.
6/10 (IMBD has it rated 8.3/10)
P.S. I wonder if they edited this movie with a machete...
- Kleeberg
Up next: Dr. Strangelove.
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