Inclubabu
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Pamela Thornton
If there is one movie every person should see it is "Sometimes in April."
Hauntingly gripping this movie spans the one hundred day genocide of tens of thousands of innocent people that ripped the small African country of Rwanda in half. This movie tells the many different stories that spanned that one hundred days and how racial violence so quickly, yet so precisely, led to the death of thousands of people. This movie shows the real pain that the victims experienced in those days, including the innocent women and children. This movie also shows how the annihilation of the Tutsi's was not an accident or random acts of violence but something that was prepared for. This movie is also highlighted by it's cast who portray the pain of the victims of the tragedy and help highlight the bitterness, fear and pain that continues to plague the country even years later. And the violence of the movie only shows the rampant pain and sacrifice.
citzsold
I have been showing this film in Sociology since I first watched it. Even after multiple viewings, I can't help but tear up multiple times, when I watch it. As of yet, I haven't been able to finish "Hotel Rwanda". A dislike for biographies is a part of that. Part of it is the "happy" feeling at the end, when you realize that he helped people (similar to Schindler's end scene with the rocks placed on his grave). We lose track in some dramas based on tragic events, rationalizing the tragedy by cheering the heroes, and walking away. We feel an uplift, but we forget that the victims are still out there, the loss is real, and the events can be repeated if we don't work to stop it. The film is not perfect, although Idris Elba carries this film so well. The scenery is Rwanda, the actors are African. This is not polished because reality is not polished. It is a beautiful thing. The fact that Idris Elba was unknown when this film was made was so much more powerful, because no one got excited to see "that actor". You took him as he was, and the story carried the day, not the actors. The enemy was faceless, because it was monolithic. Whites were pushed to the side, because this truly was an African event. If you want to watch a Rwanda genocide film, this is the one.
coolgroove
I've seen both Hotel Rwanda, Tears of the Sun and Schindler's List. If you liked any of those movies, this is a must see. All the civil wars and violence around the globe cry out for this movie to be mandatory viewing for every human being in the world community. With all our advances in technology, information and science, we've learned nothing. We still resort to violence as a means of solving our problems, when in the end we use negotiation and understanding to extricate ourselves from war. Inhumanity, racial and ethnic hatred, bigotry and ethnic cleansing (genocide) are always lurking just beneath the surface. Shame on the WORLD for letting such atrocities as the Rwandan genocide and all others like it occur! (That includes the Jewish holocaust of WWII.) Mass murder of innocent and defenseless civilians doesn't happen in obscurity. It occurs right under our noses, precisely BECAUSE we say and do nothing! Yet, we're willing to die by the thousands to preserve our access to oil. Shame on the world!
El Charro
This movie is totally unknown in my country (Venezuela), even I saw it already knowing the great programming of HBO and seemed me interesting to be able to see fund what happened in Rwanda in 1994, and how better movie to teach it that this.. Clearly that is seen that is through the history of two brothers of different ethnic groups, but the plot in general gives a great idea of what happened in those dates in that almost unknown and hidden African country. I will be quick to see "Hotel Rwanda" to remain clearer on the theme and more cultured with regard to these historic events. All the actions were very good and I congratulate them HBO staff, channel which transmits pretty good programming that I seen as long as I could.
