Blood Diamond (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Blood Diamond (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Edward Zwick

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Actor: Arnold Vosloo, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Edward Zwick
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Afrikaans (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Fast paced and fun
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a fast moving movie, as fast as Di Caprio speaking the patois of the region, Sierra Leone in the middle of a civil war (though actually filmed in gorgeous Mozambique-super job!)

Di Caprio as the soldier of fortune who suddenly develops a conscience thanks to Solomon Vandy, (Honsou), is terrific. His demonic boss ("Mummy" lead and '24' alumnus Arnold Voszlo) is yet another obstacle they need to overcome if Solomon is ever to find his son and help him recover.

This is a non-stop action film with a serious message, for the African nations really are suffering due to the blood diamonds (and indeed, mining of all kinds all over the world is still a very exploitative industry).

Di Caprio puts in another great performance, a terrific lead in to The Departed.

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Summary of Blood Diamond (Two-Disc Special Edition)

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonard DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), this urgent, intensely moving adventure shapes gripping human stories and heart-pounding action into a modern epic of profound impact.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary with Director, Edward Zwick (A revealing look at a filmmaker?s personal journey.)
Documentary:Blood on the Stone (RT: 50:00) Follow the path of a diamond from the ground to the store.
Featurette:1) Becoming Archer (RT: 8:29) - A profile of Leonardo DiCaprio and how he trained for the war; 2) Journalism on the Front Line (RT: approx 6:07) - Jennifer Connelly on Women Journalists at war; 3) Inside the Siege of Freetown (RT: 10:28) - See how Ed Zwick tackled the pivotal scene.
Music Video:"Shine On Em" by rap artist Nas

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 (The Departed) 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, In America) 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, Little Children), 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 Blood Diamond's uplifting message--and the movie is all the more potent as a result. --Bret Fetzer

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