Blood Diamond

3.00
    Blood Diamond
    2006

    Synopsis

    An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. 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 countrywide.

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    Cast

    • Leonardo DiCaprioDanny Archer
    • Djimon HounsouSolomon Vandy
    • Jennifer ConnellyMaddy Bowen
    • Kagiso KuypersDia Vandy
    • Arnold VoslooColonel Coetzee
    • Antony ColemanCordell Brown
    • Benu MabhenaJassie Vandy
    • Anointing LukolaN'Yanda Vandy
    • David HarewoodCaptain Poison
    • Basil WallaceBenjamin Kapanay

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The New Yorker

      Essentially a romantic adventure story with politics in the background--an old-fashioned movie, I suppose, but exciting and stunningly well made.
    • 88

      Premiere

      Not that Diamond skimps on the social commentary; far from it. But it makes its points without too much breast-beating, caching its polemic within a tough-minded entertainment.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Given that the movie doesn't have a single narrative surprise--you always know where it's going and why, commercially speaking, it's going there--it's amazing how good Blood Diamond is. I guess that's the surprise.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      It's a solid performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who has grown into this sort of "gritty" role and is more believable after having been seen dancing on the dark side in "The Departed."
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      To the unlikely role of a Bogart-esque reluctant hero, Leonardo DiCaprio brings an intensity that compels even when the script falters.
    • 70

      L.A. Weekly

      There's no use griping about the superfluous white-on-white romance that generates so much dead space in Zwick's movie, for without it Blood Diamond would never have been made. Which would be a pity, for as liberal hand-wringing goes, it's a winner.
    • 60

      Variety

      Africa's enduring sorrow is ripe for drama, but Blood Diamond is, finally, a fitting metaphor for the gems: Potentially brilliant from a distance, but upon closer inspection, one likely will see the flaws.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      There is every reason to learn about the link between jewels and death, by all means, but no reason to try to disguise a term paper as entertainment.

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