Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Uncle Joe Disjointed TV picture trying too hard. A couple of good actors surrounded by stilted performances from everyone else. Debra Winger and that guy who plays the FBI agent in The Americans act as if they got their scripts the hour before and we're given only one take. Most everything happens in the narration and long pauses. No subtitles when the native language is spoken, so unless you speak the language you're clueless as to what they are saying. Lots of heavy handed music, in case you didn't get it that the genocide is bad.

bondgirl6781 How could this have happened? How could the most powerful countries including ours turn away? The worse part about these events and the ones before is that such atrocities are still happening! The film takes place in 1994 in Rwanda: a military man struggles with his own conscience and his own soul as he tries to bring himself to forgive his brother a DJ who encouraged and participated through the radio programs the genocide that would precede. For 100 days, men, women, and even children were slaughtered-over what? The question still looms. I have seen Hotel Rwanda and it was very affecting and hard to watch. But this film takes you outside the hotel and into the streets, the jungles, the roads, and all throughout Rwanda. We watch as the UN do nothing. We watch as the American government question what is the exact criteria that needs to be met before genocide could actually be called genocide. I saw this film and never in my whole have I ever been ashamed to call myself a human being much less an American. It had been only fifty years since the Holocaust when these events took place and no one has learned the lesson of history repeating themselves.

longislandlloyd Normally, I would write how a movie was so weak and boring that I turned off the set or spent most of the time sorting my clothes. But this time I turned off the TV because the movie was SO GOOD. How is that possible? I was sickened by the brutal, sadistic, genocidal torture and murders committed by the Hutus against their fellow Rwandans. The movie played like a documentary and was so vivid and heart-wrenching that most civilized people could hardly bear to see how uncivilized people can act. I highly recommend this movie, but not to the faint of heart. I wish I could have stayed to the end, but I got the message loud and clear. The American government and the rest of the civilized world did nothing to prevent or stop this holocaust. And the U.N., as usual, was inept and overwhelmed. Perhaps America could have stopped the genocide. The Rwandan army was mostly just a rag-tag group of cut-throats armed with machetes. They would have been no match for the U.S. military. But our president stood idly by and let the murders wage on. It was not in his political or economic interest to save these innocent people from annihilation.And who was that U.S. president who turned his back on a half million innocent African people?? You'll have to see the movie to find out.'Hint: It was NOT the media's favorite whipping boy, George W. Bush.

drv-3 As a career Army Officer, I'm no stranger to the horrors of war. I'm ashamed to say that like most Americans, in the past I've written off Africa in my mind as a bankrupt continent, unable to govern itself effectively, led by corrupt, murderous thugs only interested in lining their own pockets at the expense of their population.However, this movie reminded me that regardless of our nationality, race or religion we are all human beings with hopes, dreams and ideals. How can it be that in these modern times, human beings can be so cruel, foul and inhumane to systematically slaughter over a million people simply because of some artificial class distinction invented by Belgian colonizers? I'll never be able to purge from my mind the scene of the killers sharpening their machete blades by dragging it along the street prior to pouncing on unarmed men, women and children.For me, this movie forever changed my view of Africa and its population. I can only hope that next time (and somewhere in this world there will be a next time) the West will intervene and prevent such a slaughter.