I liked the main idea of ​​the movie

Its a really good movie.

A much better watch is Sometimes In April where the story actually focuses on Rwandan people (them being the main ones affected by the atrocities) and how they personally were affected and not on the side characters.

Shocking events in Rwanda highlighted in this excellent film.

A difficult subject well told, and a useful, and shocking guide to the true events of the Rwandan Genocide, and how some failed to act appropriately.

And so it goes on. All around the world. For purportedly different reasons. But ultimately, because of "humanity". When you really look at what we've done, and do, it's hard not to be really disappointed in us generally. Take me back to the days of small communities and isolation?

The topic was so big that even the film itself couldn't contain it.

Pretty straightforward film about a truly horrific time that should not be forgotten.

Has strengths, but very obvious and relies heavily on hindsight and religion.

Powerful ending. The focused a bit too much on the wrong characters. Worth a watch, but not the best film out there on the Rwandan genocide.

The story of two Europeans and their involvement in the 1994 massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda -- very moving, very well done in its portrayal of the tough choices these two make, offset by the sheer brutality of the situation. Survivors of the genocide helped making the movie, and it was shot on location.

Great drama and great characters for the untold story of Hutus and Tutsis conflict in Rwanda and the naïveness of the good hearted people against the cruel reality and the tough decisions to make.

As good as it could have been considering the content

Chronicles a week of the 1994 Rwandan Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi. A Priest (Hurt) and teacher (Dancy) - a long with a detachment of Belgian UN peacekeepers - working in a Catholic school shelter Tutsi refugees when violence broke out in April of 1994. This is thematically similar to Hotel Rwanda but where that film had the usual Hollywood stylings/conventions, Shooting Dogs (a joint BBC and UK Film Council production) has a more authentic feel to it. Although both films do fall into the trap of the righteous indignation of non-Rwandan onlookers. The ending does elevate the film slightly due to its unwillingness to neatly conclude or explain away what we've witnessed over the previous 2 hours; the ambiguity of the final scene representing the ambiguity of how such a heinous massacre could have occurred.

Rwandan genocide ;-(

You can compare this movie a little to Hotel Rwanda, same theme, about the genocide in 1994. It's such a sad movie, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion. Credit to John Hurt and Hugh Dancy for their performance

this film could've been better if they had re-cast some of the actors, changed the script. i think the dialogues are dull and cliche. i can't feel the tense of the situation. many are a lot better in portraying the situation in rwanda than this film

The movie doesn't manage to capture the historic subtilities and background of the genocide and the hatred between the Hutu and the Tutsis, neither does it make clear that the Rwandan genocide was an "act" among many others that took place between those two ethnic groups. Nevertheless through the depiction of this isolated case during the genocide it still manages to transmit in a realistic and not hollywoodesque way the horrific events that took place during these months and how these people must have felt.

Too self-serving, and supplies absolutely no insight into the vital question of why Hutu hatred for the Tutsis could have reached such a boiling point.

Very powerful tale of a tragedy.Definitely different from Hotel Rwanda.