Blood Diamond (Special Edition) (Widescreen) (2-DVD) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- 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 | Jennifer Connelly & Leonardo DiCaprio | |
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: 3/5 --
A comparatively honest effort from Hollywood but one fatally weakened by the familiar scent of compromise in its final reels.
London Evening Standard
[DiCaprio] commands the heavy attention of a performer comfortable in his own actorly skin.
Box Office
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [With] astonishingly dark, whiplash-inducing action scenes....Caching its polemic within a tough-minded entertainment.
Premiere
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)
[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: 1.5/5 --
Blood Diamond is a movie zircon. It doesn't cut glass, but it cuts plot, character, and credibility. It could be Hotel Rwanda, but instead it's Motel Deep-Six.
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
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.
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