Blood Diamond (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 568,585
Rating: 2/4 -- After centuries of raping Africa for its resources, now we exploit its misery for our amusement. Full Review
Boston Phoenix
Apr 23, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- The whole thing is more Gerald Ratner than Harry Winston. Full Review
Guardian
Jan 26, 2007
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. Full Review
Herald Sun (Australia)
Sep 27, 2019
Both excitingly well made and dispiritingly formulaic. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jun 29, 2007
[DiCaprio] commands the heavy attention of a performer comfortable in his own actorly skin.
Box Office
Feb 1, 2007
It is clear that the film-makers have done an enormous amount of research on their subject.....Individual sequences -- such as the massacre that opens the movie -- are staged in bravura but chilling fashion.
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- It's clear that Blood Diamond takes quite a while to wholeheartedly get going... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Mar 28, 2014

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.

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