Blood Diamond R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 20, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Connelly | |
Performer: | Djimon Hounsou, Stephen Collins, Jimi Mistry, Ato Essandoh, Michael Sheen, Basil Wallace, Kasigo Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo & Marius Weyers | |
Directed by | Edward Zwick | |
Screenplay by | Charles Leavitt | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Produced by | Gillian Gorfil, Marshall Herskovitz & Graham King | |
Director of Photography: | Eduardo Serra |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
After centuries of raping Africa for its resources, now we exploit its misery for our amusement.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The movie sometimes revels too much in the chaos and carnage of its setting, but superior writing and acting pricks the conscience exactly when needed.
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Herald Sun (Australia)
3 stars out of 5 -- Crammed full of exhilarating set-pieces and panoramic photography, it also included the DiCaprio role most likely to snag Best Actor...
Total Film
[DiCaprio] plays the smuggler as the scum he is....A character who has inspired the most fully sustained performance of his adult life.
New York Times
Rating: 2/6 --
Blood Diamond has all the cinematic punch of a lengthy Nation article.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
The whole thing is more Gerald Ratner than Harry Winston.
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Guardian
4 stars out of 5 -- This is Hollywood thriller at its best but one that also delivers a powerful moral message about Western greed, capitalism and exploitation.
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Product Description:
Set in Sierra Leone, BLOOD DIAMOND explores the role of diamond trading in the African civil war of the late 1990s. Narrowly escaping death when his village is invaded by R.U.F. militia, farmer Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is enslaved at a diamond mine and has his family taken from him. When he discovers an unusually large stone he buries it, knowing it may be his only tool for retrieving his family. While Vandy is imprisoned, white African diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) overhears an angry R.U.F. leader shouting at the farmer about the missing diamond, and he gets Vandy out of jail, then bribes him with the promise that he will help find Vandy's family in return for half the diamond's worth. Bonded by a common goal, the two men clash over drastically different values, but manage to stick together in pursuit of the prize. Also playing a part is fearless American journalist Maddie Bowen (Jennifer Connolly), whose flirtations with Archer and obsession with the truth land her in the middle of the bloody action. As the three embark on a dangerous journey filled with close calls, unlikely bonds form that threaten to change Archer's unfeeling ways. Meanwhile, a plotline following Vandy's beloved son shows us the horror being done to and by child soldiers at the hands of the so-called freedom-fighting rebel forces.
Addressing his serious subject with passion and skill, director Edward Zwick (THE LAST SAMURAI) delivers impressive action sequences that feel horrifically real without seeming excessive. While some critics have taken stabs at the film for its Hollywood elements, no one can argue against BLOOD DIAMOND's noble intentions or its stellar performances. To most viewers, the film is likely to provide a disturbing and educational look at a world many know little about.
Addressing his serious subject with passion and skill, director Edward Zwick (THE LAST SAMURAI) delivers impressive action sequences that feel horrifically real without seeming excessive. While some critics have taken stabs at the film for its Hollywood elements, no one can argue against BLOOD DIAMOND's noble intentions or its stellar performances. To most viewers, the film is likely to provide a disturbing and educational look at a world many know little about.