A very good movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while ago and since I have it on DVD, I was quite eager to check it out again. Eventually, I thought it would be pretty good but it turned out to be even better than I expected. This movie is really heartbreaking but, in my opinion, like for example 'The Schindler's list', it should be compulsory viewing for all teenagers only in respect of its historical value. I mean, how many teenagers are actually aware of what happened? You could always argue that, right now, there is something similar happening somewhere else in the world... Anyway, I thought it was a spellbinding tragic story,  there was a pretty good cast (Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno) with, above all, an amazing perfomance by Don Cheadle. Until then Cheadle was one of the most underrated actors but thanks to his tremendous work on this movie, he finally got some recognition. Still, there were a couple of things that slightly bothered me when I was rewatching this flick. Indeed, if the directing by Terry George was usually quite effective, it was also sometimes rather heavy-handed. For example, you get to see a local explaining to a journalist the difference between a Hutu and Tutsi just to make sure the mainstream audience got a better grip on this tragedy but do you ever get to hear why the Nazis hated the Jews in a WWII drama? You also get to see a scene where the main character drives with his van on a road which is so misty that you can't see a thing but, then, within a few seconds, the heavy fog magically disappears to display hundreds of corpses. As a result, it is a spectacular but rather far-fetched scene. Anyway, to conclude, what took place in Rwanda was a real tragedy and this movie will remind you that we have all let these people down back then and if you don't mind being horrified and depressed while watching a movie, you should definitely check this one.

8/10