Review – Hotel Rwanda

If nothing else, this production deserves to be commended as one of the few (if not in fact the only) American movies about Africa that actually has a black character for a hero. This is particularly apt given the subject: the brutal genocide of a million people almost completely ignored by American and European governments and media. Don Cheadle gets a career-making role as the Hutu manager of one of Kigali’s luxury hotels. The picture chronicles his efforts to save his family (including his Tutsi wife) and other refugees from the marauding militia. Though more than a little uncomfortable to watch, this is one of those stories that needs to be told. Worth seeing