Shake Hands with the Devil is the story of a Canadian commander torn between his duty and his conscience when he finds himself eyewitness to hell on earth. In 1993, the United Nations dispatches Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (
Roy Dupuis) to far-off Rwanda to oversee a fragile cease-fire. A brilliant, workaholic officer and charismatic commander, Dallaire encounters the shabby - sometimes comically shabby - reality of a typical UN peacekeeping operation: under-funded, over-bureaucratic, and cobbled together from military units from dozens of countries, each with a slightly different agenda. Meanwhile the peace agreement between the rebels, led by the minority Tutsi ethnic group, and the French-supported government dominated by the Hutu majority group, turns out to rest on shaky ground. Conciliatory speeches are undercut by mysterious massacres. Just months after Dallaire raises the UN flag, an unknown group shoots down the President's plane. Are the rebels to blame or the Hutu extremists in the President's own party? (To this day, nobody knows.) With the plane crash, the storm breaks and a secret but long-planned genocidal campaign against the Tutsi minority begins with a night of terror in Kigali.
An absolute perfect realization of Dallaire's book of the same title. "Shake Hands With the Devil" not only remains cohesive with Dallaire's accounts, but proudly represents Canada's film industry. Dupuis broke my heart when I watched the film.
Hmm....This movie was a meh. It had a few explosions, but the people in the movie didnt even care to move. Im sorry but when a huge explosion goes down, you move....Other then that, it was horrible
You could have heard a pin drop in the theatre I was in. Except for the occasional gasp that is. It also the first film I have ever been to where there was no rush to exit the theatre. Everyone waited until all the credits rolled before they slowly began to exit the theatre in silence. Very profound and disturbing film. A must see for all.