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| Blood Diamond [2006] | ![Blood Diamond [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qSvyJuNgL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Edward Zwick
Actor: Leonardo Dicaprio
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Language: English (Original Language)
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Running Time: 138 minutes
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Release Date: June 18, 2007
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Leonardo DiCaprio puts a handsome face on an ugly industry: In parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil warfare, killing thousands of innocents and drafting preteen children as vicious soldiers. DiCaprio (IThe Departed/I) plays Danny Archer, a white African soldier-turned-diamond-smuggler who gets wind of a large raw jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman (Djimon Hounsou, IIn America/I) recently escaped from enslavement by a brutal rebel leader. Archer offers a deal: He'll help Vandy find his war-scattered family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Drawn into this web of exploitation is journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly, ILittle Children/I), who agrees to help if Archer will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds make their way into the hands of the corporations who sell them to the Western world. DiCaprio is compelling because he never flinches from Archer's utter ruthlessness; Archer ends up doing the morally justifiable thing, but only because his desperate greed has led him to it. Hounsou and Connelly, though saddled with all the moral and political speeches, rise above the cant and keep the movie's treacherously formulaic plot rooted in human characters. But in the end, the story won't stick with you as much as the dead stillness in the child soldiers' eyes; the horror of African civil strife refuses to be contained by IBlood Diamond/I's uplifting message--and the movie is all the more potent as a result. I--Bret Fetzer/I
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 Both Sparkling And Rough October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film, based on the dreadful events of 1990's Sierra Leone (limbs hacked off, families massacred etc) is in the 4 to 5 star range. It could be upsetting for some people to watch, because it DOES show brutality, sadism, indifferent UN officials suffering from compassion-fatigue. In a word, it is realistic. My wife, the daughter of an ex-RAF air traffic controller, who was born in Tanganyika territory (now Tanzania), found it very upsetting to see, partly because as a child she watched something very similar happening across the border river in Congo in the 1960's.br /br /The film does show the Africans as people, not just a backdrop to fighting and adventuring...and for once, the white people are not shown as almost all wicked or stupid, though the film does point out that hacking off limbs was done by King Leopold of the Belgians' overseers when the Congo was his own property, before being a Belgian colony as such. The film was wrong to say that the Belgians were the first to commit such atrocities. Africa has been a cruel place for a long long time.br /br /As for the acting, very good, including di Caprio, though having been in Rhodesia myself in 1977 and having known soldiers and mercenaries, I could not quite believe his ex-Rhodesian mercenary and diamond smuggler.br /br /And, of course, few film-makers today will admit that Africa would be better and should be under a benevolent form of European rule. Call it the "Geldof Effect" (Europe always in the wrong...white people always to blame) even though one African in this film says, if I heard aright, that Africa would be better under European government.br /br /Overall, an excellent film which leaves you a bit exhausted.
 a thought-provoking but entertaining movie September 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Given the magnitude of the atrocities committed in the civil war in sierra leone I expected this film to be something of a tearjerker on the scale of the congo river.However it wasn't overly sentimental and the action was good and I felt as though I learned a lot about what really went on in sierra leone and why it had happened.Blood Diamond was too long for my liking and a bit drawn out at times but if you love beautiful scenery and landscapes this will be a bonus for you.Never seen leonardo di caprio acting in anything else apart from the Titanic - a role that could have been filled by just about any other reasonably competent actor but I think that his part in Blood Diamond as a white zimbabwean soldier/diamond hunter could not have been.A fine piece of acting from him and from Djimon Hounsou as solomon and a believable and engrossing rapport that develop between the two men as the film goes on.
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER July 24, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This film is part-story and part-sermon, and the sermon is better than the story. Some parts are exclusively sermon such as the screen messages at the beginning and the end or the moralistic pontifications of the committee that deliberates on the diamond trade. In terms of length, most of the film consists of the story of a young soldier of fortune turned diamond smuggler, but the basic moral has been enunciated so clearly at the start that nothing in the tale of Danny Solomon and Maddy can be understood as independent of it, and that is all to the good. br /br /Far and away the best things are the horrific sequences of civil war in Sierra Leone, and I have not yet seen a TV documentary on this topic that equals them for sheer impact. The scene where the captives' hands are lopped off spares us the ultimate in realism thank goodness, but nobody is likely to have forgotten it even two hours later when we are told that this barbarity was first introduced into Africa by King Leopold's colonial regime in the Belgian Congo. The sequences featuring the abduction and drilling of the boy revolutionaries have a chilling quality to them that probably comes mainly from a sense that this is how it happened in reality, and I wonder what it was that makes the acting so good in these ghastly vignettes, on the part of the youngsters as well as of the adults. Having encountered nothing that equals this film as a visual reconstruction of the civil war in Sierra Leone my mind reverted to the brief but indelible account of the matter given by Col Tim Collins in his memoir Rules of Engagement. This is of course a factual record, and what sticks in the reader's memory is the surrealistic irrationality of it all, with the insurgents drunk or stoned. In the film the revolutionary commander is at least rational, so for all the power of the enactment it seems that we are again being spared the ultimate worst. br /br /According to the film, the war is about the wealth from diamonds, one rider on the general theorem that wars in Africa are about the ownership of the national resources of each locality. The `blood' theme is symbolised by the pink colour of the giant diamond at the centre of the story, and also by the pale blood of the goat into whose back some smuggled diamonds have been sewn in an early incident, but of course this is only an artistic embellishment to the literal scenes of blood. An action-story is stitched on to the basic backdrop, and in some ways it is a good one. Where the film seems a bit uncertain of itself is to what extent this is a `straight' action yarn and to what extent a parable. br /br /The early episodes featuring Di Caprio and the other principals are not good at all. They are rather old-fashioned 50's-style stuff, very `acted' with stilted one-liners. Di Caprio does his best with encounters in which he sees off a crazed revolutionary and later some border guards with some dreary tough-guy posturing, seemingly able to command any situation by sheer personal presence and interminable repetitions of `huh?' Bogey might have carried it off, but not Di Caprio, and we could at least have done with some memorable phrases, of which I heard none. Things improve gradually, and although the dialogue between Leonardo and Jennifer Connelly is very average it at least makes a bit of a human being, as opposed to a B-movie stiff, out of Danny. The sermon element actually helps, with both of them recounting the grisly experiences of their parents in their respective previous conflicts. The actor who brings the story aspect of the film to life is neither of these but Djimon Hounsou as Solomon, and progressively Di Caprio seems to catch acting off him. In the end I carried away the feeling that Di Caprio represented the story element and Hounsou the `moral' element, the paradox of this being that Hounsou was far more dramatic and convincing. Indeed, in a film whose strength lies basically in its documentary and realistic dimension, the most devastating shot, for me, was of Solomon's bestial roar of rage as he deals out death with his shovel. br /br /The ending is a bit of a tear-jerker, but in fact I did not mind that since the film as a whole is a slightly uneasy mixture of different elements - it might as well end this way as any other way. Danny's fate left my eyes dry, Solomon ends up as the hero and rightly so. It all comes back to the diamond trade and the human beings (for want of a better expression) who operate it. One touch that I welcomed near the end was the brief cameo part for Michael Sheen doing his Tony Blair voice as a diamond dealer, and I wonder which film came first, this one or The Queen. The world of the diamond merchants does not interact much with the hell that their trade creates in Africa. Sierra Leone was at `peace' the last I heard, but we know better by now than to rely on that for long. There are currently storms on the world financial scene, and when those occur the best place to find stability is in, say, gold, or, indeed, diamonds.
rebekah April 29, 2008
this film is very goodbr /it allows you to know the things thats are going on in our world by putting it into a film with action nd adventure.br /its a very deep film and i loved it.i've watched it about 5 times in a week. :D
 Excellent April 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have watched this movie and would like to watch it again, the 2 main actors were the right people for this film. and it was very touching.br /i have ordered this film and it is going with my other dvd collection also.br /one of the best films!!
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