Powerful film, tearjerker, with a career best performance from Don Cheadle. I read where the studios wanted Denzel or Wesley Snipes for this movie. Neither of those two would have made this film work. Cheadle gives his character a real quality and makes us believe he was an everyday man trying to save as many lives as he could. Denzel or Wesley would have taken me right out of the story and made the protag some sort of action star or superhero.
It's an inspiring film worth seeing if you can. Cheadle is deserving of an Oscar nom. The film even tackles aspects of the lack of the west's help during the genocide in Rwanda.
My only problem with the film (and films such as this one) is that it was in English. I feel that it should have been in the language of Rwanda. I realize the impossibilities of making this happen from an independent or even larger studio movie. But I also think it would make it more real and therefore more powerful and emotional. But this is a minor quibble that I generally wouldn't expect to happen.
It's an inspiring film worth seeing if you can. Cheadle is deserving of an Oscar nom. The film even tackles aspects of the lack of the west's help during the genocide in Rwanda.
My only problem with the film (and films such as this one) is that it was in English. I feel that it should have been in the language of Rwanda. I realize the impossibilities of making this happen from an independent or even larger studio movie. But I also think it would make it more real and therefore more powerful and emotional. But this is a minor quibble that I generally wouldn't expect to happen.
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