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Movie Review: Hotel Rwanda (Blu-ray)

10.07.11

Based upon the 1994 Rwandan conflict, Paul, a lodging manager who knows the benefits of keeping his friends close and his enemies even closer, is forced to engage for the lives of his family as well as countless refugees as a Rwandan dictator assassinates the Rwandan President overthrowing a armistice agreement, leading to the massacring of over a million Tutsi civilians.

I’ve never been a big fan of war films.  There are a yoke war related films here and there that I’ve enjoyed over the years (PLATOON, TEARS OF THE SUN, THE KINGDOM) but even then I can scarcely say I’d re-follow them.  Even one of my favorite shows, 24, nearly lost me a couple times when they went to unfamiliar places and tangled with war crimes (something I mention simply because the villain here, Hakeem Kae-Kazim was also one of 24′s main villains in edible 7).  Add to all this the fact that it’s based on a true story and nothing drains my enthusiasm more.  I recognize full well that the world’s a cruel, messed up place and the last thing I want to do is watch it on TV be it news or big, so most often I avoid these types of films altogether.  On that note, HOTEL RWANDA isn’t a bad cover, not at all, it’s a rather powerful emotional roller-coaster ride from start to finish.  It’s no more than not my type of roller-coaster.

Source: Flix 66