I guess the answer must lie with writer/director Raoul Peck. I watched this movie on HBO, with a pretty extensive knowledge of what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and why. I should have been riveted, and yet I was bored most of the time, and angry at how hackneyed and trite the film was the rest of the time. The dialogue was bad, the actors unconvincing (this was a low point for Winger), and I was never drawn into the film. There is no comparison between this movie and the infinitely superior The Killing Fields. I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda yet, but I'm hoping that it managed to do justice to the topic of the Rwandan genocide. I would not recommend this film.
Review of Sometimes in April
Sometimes in April
(2005 TV Movie)
How can a movie with this subject-matter be so bad?
11 April 2005