The Departed

It's been rated "outstanding" by some reviewers. I would give it a "very good"
The title of the movie says it all "The Departed". For the sake of some fun...let me tell you that everyone dies at the end ;)
A multistarrer with Jack Nicholson as Francis Costello - The Goon, Matt Damon (a cop who is attached to the Costello gang), Leo (d Caprio) (as the police informer who has found place in the Costello Gang), Sr.Sheen and Mark Wahlberg as the only 2 top cops who know that the police dept has planted Leo- the police informer in the Costello gang to seek out clues and evidence to catch Francis Costello red-handed! Alec Baldwin is seen throwing his "weight around", very literally, as the top cop! favouring Matt Damon as his blue eyed boy. The movie is inspired from Hongkong movie which supposedly has a little less blood shed.

The good part is that it kept me completely engrossed. My heart reached out to Leo :)

Hotel Rwanda

An insightful and touching movie about the civil strife in South Africa. The war between the Tutsis and Huttus. The key protagonist is the manager of Hotel Rwanda (who belongs to the Huttu sect), his wife (who belongs to the Tutsi sect) and their 3 children. The whole town is in a blaze, while the Manager provides refuge to the refugees, largely Tutsis since the news outbreak that the Tutsi rebels have killed the Huttu President who was trying to bring about peace between the 2 sects. At Hotel Rwanda, life is not easy, with no intervention from the Americas or Europe to bring about peace in the state. Instead there is a small batch of UN peace keepers who is working hard to prevent any more casualities.
This one is definitely worth a deko, since it takes a close look at corruption & inequalities withint the black state indifference on part of the White world who consider the South Africans a class below the negres!
A case in point to prove how internal differences donot allow the underdeveloped countries to progress.