How sad is this?

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.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I have been showing this film in Sociology since I first watched it. Even after multiple viewings, I can't help but tear up multiple times, when I watch it. As of yet, I haven't been able to finish "Hotel Rwanda". A dislike for biographies is a part of that. Part of it is the "happy" feeling at the end, when you realize that he helped people (similar to Schindler's end scene with the rocks placed on his grave). We lose track in some dramas based on tragic events, rationalizing the tragedy by cheering the heroes, and walking away. We feel an uplift, but we forget that the victims are still out there, the loss is real, and the events can be repeated if we don't work to stop it. The film is not perfect, although Idris Elba carries this film so well. The scenery is Rwanda, the actors are African. This is not polished because reality is not polished. It is a beautiful thing. The fact that Idris Elba was unknown when this film was made was so much more powerful, because no one got excited to see "that actor". You took him as he was, and the story carried the day, not the actors. The enemy was faceless, because it was monolithic. Whites were pushed to the side, because this truly was an African event. If you want to watch a Rwanda genocide film, this is the one.

I've seen both Hotel Rwanda, Tears of the Sun and Schindler's List. If you liked any of those movies, this is a must see. All the civil wars and violence around the globe cry out for this movie to be mandatory viewing for every human being in the world community. With all our advances in technology, information and science, we've learned nothing. We still resort to violence as a means of solving our problems, when in the end we use negotiation and understanding to extricate ourselves from war. Inhumanity, racial and ethnic hatred, bigotry and ethnic cleansing (genocide) are always lurking just beneath the surface. Shame on the WORLD for letting such atrocities as the Rwandan genocide and all others like it occur! (That includes the Jewish holocaust of WWII.) Mass murder of innocent and defenseless civilians doesn't happen in obscurity. It occurs right under our noses, precisely BECAUSE we say and do nothing! Yet, we're willing to die by the thousands to preserve our access to oil. Shame on the world!

A film such as Sometimes in April, could never be described as entertaining, for who could be entertained by mass genocide ? What is is though, is a very necessary film which is brave enough to put the spotlight on a part of history that many would prefer to forget. By doing so, and doing it as factually as possible, telling what happened and not covering it up, it remembers and honors the over 1 million people who died during the Rwandan genocide. This film does all of this extremely well, and because of that its not an easy film to watch, especially the scenes of the westerners and Europeans leaving, or of governments not caring enough to stop the carnage, much less give the name genocide to it. This or some other film much like it such as Hotel Rwanda, should be compulsory viewing in schools so that we do not forget that we were the ones who turned our backs when we could of helped, so that in the future, we will not do that again.

Great drama, which takes on a national disaster elegantly and simply, through the eyes of one man and his family..... Beautifully shot, great lighting and rich colors... Flawed because characters seem to pop in to the plot mid-stream, with little explanation, and the "jump back and forth and back and forth and back and forth" in time technique can really ruin the continuity of a film ( a la Oliver Stone's disaster: "Alexander"). Compared to "Hotel Rwanda", the course of events seems a little confusing.Also, contains some rather inane commentary, early on, to the effect that there was never any tribal rivalry, strife or division in that part of Africa until the Belgians came along, 20th century....