I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Kinyarwanda, which was directed by Alrick Brown, is a movie that takes places during the Rwandan Genocide. Throughout the movie, we watch a few different perspectives from different types of people during the genocide. Some include the leader of a mosque and a little girl whose parents were both killed for being tutsis. The film is very inspiring as it shows people of different beliefs coming together to protect each other. At one point in the movie, the leader of the mosque opens up the doors to his mosque as a refuge for those being targeted by the Hutus including even Christians. The director did an excellent job of bringing different people together at the end, but the movie was a little confusing as it switched from the present to flashbacks without differentiating the two very well and only becoming clear after watching the movie. Overall, Alrick Brown does an amazing job of mixing his global perspectives into the film that has allowed me to see the Rwandan Genocide through someone else's eyes. I believe this film deserves an 8/10 rating because it was very insightful and interesting to watch.

Overall I thought this was a very interesting film. I particularly liked how the film maker decided to use different stories in the film, and intertwined them together, as well as using flashbacks. This film showed many problems that went on during the Rwandan genocide, like the conflicting problems between the Hutus and the Tutsis. This film tried to show that with all the violence that went on during the genocide, and some of the people who decided to act violently by murdering their own people, there were others who decided to risk their lives in order to save the ones who were about to get murdered. This portrayed that the genocide was not all bad, there were people who decided to help others who were in danger of getting killed, like the military soldiers who were trained in Uganda, and decided to rescue the people who were in the middle of the genocide, but were not a part of committing violent crimes, and murder. This film showed how religious freedom and peace was an important role for those who were against the genocide, and the ones involved in it. This film is not American, but it does share some similar things to American films, like the happy ending at the end of the film, most American films have happy endings, so it was interesting to see that as well in this film, and how they spoke both English and Kinyarwanda. I would not change anything about this film, and therefore would give it a 4/5 stars.

I liked this film, and my favorite part was when one of the men said "do not mistake the actions of God with the actions of man", which I thought was interesting, especially for a religious figure to say, since people often mix up the two. I also noticed that there were a few different stories going on, which I had never seen before! I thought that the director putting titles before every story was so helpful and reminded me of a documentary, which also made the film that much more realistic. I thought it was probably a bit more realistic than Hotel Rwanda, too, which was pretty obviously an American film. The ending in Hotel Rwanda was a little happier and did not have nearly as much gore, I think I liked Kinyarwanda a little more. I appreciate the realistic aspect, and I find it interesting when films do not follow the Hollywood plot line that I am so used to and that I expect! I also feel that we owe the victims the truth, and putting a happier spin on the Genocide like Hotel Rwanda, is kind of degrading, since it's just simply not what happened. We did not really see any character deaths in Hotel Rwanda (other than when Paul drove down that road) yet people were dying everywhere and it was so brutal. We also did not get to see the extent of the brutality in Hotel Rwanda. I did think it was sweet when the girl forgave the man for killing her parents, as well because I did not expect it.

After watching Hotel Rwanda, this film gives you a different perspective. Hotel Rwanda seemed to show more of the rich people staying in the hotel trying to save their lives. Yes, they were being threatened but they did get to stay in a very nice hotel. Also, those people had very powerful friends who tried to help them. In this film it was different, the "average" person's life seemed to be on display. Some of the things that happened were really hard to imagine. Specifically, when a girl came home and both her parents were dead. She Left the house and never got to apologize to her parents. Then, later in the film she somehow forgave the people who killed her parents. Maybe killings are so common that people are just expected to not hold a grudge over that or something, but it seems like if someone had killed my parents I wouldn't have forgiven them just because they asked.