Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
by Edward Zwick
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Actor: Arnold Vosloo, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Leonardo DiCaprioDirector: Edward Zwick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Edward Zwick
Producer: Ben Waisbren
Producer: Genevieve Hofmeyr
Producer: Gillian Gorfil
Producer: Graham King
Writer: C. Gaby Mitchell
Writer: Charles Leavitt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
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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- An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo 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 bea
Movie Reviews of Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: I nearly died of boredom
Summary: 1 Stars
Blood Diamond is an amateur, cliche ridden, preachy film.
Unlike other, well done films and documentaries that cover 3rd world exploitation and conflict zones created by the 1st world, Blood Diamond fails to carry any emotionally weight.
The movie is often either sarcastic or sentimental, neither of which make me care about the real world problems or the onscreen characters.
the line 'just pray they don't find oil here' is and example of the way the film pokes fun at mass genocide in Iraq.
I just couldn't care. The movie is predictable, especially the ending.
If you really want to understand why this film is such a pile of garbage, then you need to see 'Darwin's Nightmare'
In fact, Go find 'darwin's nightmare' if you get one thing out of reading this review, it is that you need to watch that film.
Summary of Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo 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.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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