Blood Diamond (Two-Disc Special Edition)
starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo
directed by: Edward Zwick
directed by: Edward Zwick
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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 (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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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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- Blood Diamond DVD
Movie came quickly - there are a few skips in it - but over all it was good.
Rating: - A pleasant surprise.
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006)
There are good actors and there are bad actors, but rarely has one person embodied both as well as Leonardo DiCaprio. And oddly, there's a sharp dividing line between the good and the bad, and that, of course, is Titanic. Before 1997, it seemed DiCaprio was incapable of making a bad movie. They weren't all brilliant by any stretch of the imagination (The Basketball Diaries, really), but he was always brilliant in them. Then came Titanic, as awful a ... Read More
Rating: - A solid movie
1.Others have already written about the pros / cons of this movie;overall a definite worth see.
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- Leo Shines
Blood Diamond is another movie which showcases how great an actor DiCaprio is.At this point I will see any movie he is in because more often than not he chooses movies that I enjoy.
He plays Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler and mercenary, who has made his livelihood engaging in activites that show him as a rather distatsteful charactor. He is juxtaposed with Djimon Hounsou who plays Solomon Vandy, a man caught in the conflict of his country and Blood Diamonds.
Over the ... Read More
Rating: - Blood + Diamond = A Great Movie
Great is the only word that can be used to describe this movie. This movie makes me think about life & feelings. You should have this movie.
- Blood Diamond DVDMovie came quickly - there are a few skips in it - but over all it was good.
- A pleasant surprise.Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006)
There are good actors and there are bad actors, but rarely has one person embodied both as well as Leonardo DiCaprio. And oddly, there's a sharp dividing line between the good and the bad, and that, of course, is Titanic. Before 1997, it seemed DiCaprio was incapable of making a bad movie. They weren't all brilliant by any stretch of the imagination (The Basketball Diaries, really), but he was always brilliant in them. Then came Titanic, as awful a ... Read More
- A solid movie1.Others have already written about the pros / cons of this movie;overall a definite worth see.
- Leo ShinesBlood Diamond is another movie which showcases how great an actor DiCaprio is.At this point I will see any movie he is in because more often than not he chooses movies that I enjoy.
He plays Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler and mercenary, who has made his livelihood engaging in activites that show him as a rather distatsteful charactor. He is juxtaposed with Djimon Hounsou who plays Solomon Vandy, a man caught in the conflict of his country and Blood Diamonds.
Over the ... Read More
- Blood + Diamond = A Great MovieGreat is the only word that can be used to describe this movie. This movie makes me think about life & feelings. You should have this movie.
