Blood Diamond

2006

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller

324
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 214 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 621179 621.2K

bootlegger journalist smuggling (contraband) loss of loved one africa rwandan genocide

Plot summary

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.

Director

Edward Zwick Photo
Edward Zwick

Top cast

Leonardo DiCaprio Photo
Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer
Jennifer Connelly Photo
Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen
Jonathan Pienaar Photo
Jonathan Pienaar as SA Cameraman
David S. Lee Photo
David S. Lee as Cockney Journalist
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
851.75 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 39
1.90 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gavin6942 8 / 10

Ripped From the Headlines, the Nearly True Story of Diamonds

In Sierra Leone, there exists diamonds worth a fair amount of money. But they are harvested by slaves and sold to fund genocide. This is the story of one of those slaves, a diamond smuggler (with connections to Belgium, England, And Liberia) and a journalist. Together, they will fight to win a story, a diamond and a family. But sacrifices will be made.We have an amazing cast, so let me just get them out of the way -- Leonardo DiCaprio as smuggler Danny Archer, Djimon Hounsou as native African Solomon Vandy and Jennifer Connelly as journalist Maddy Bowen. DiCaprio rarely makes bad films, and my unending praise for Connelly is seen in a variety of reviews I've written... this film will be no exception to her glowing track record.This film has action, suspense and a good story to tell. Like "The Insider" (or whatever the tobacco movie is called), this exposes how diamonds come to be on the market. I'd like to say things have improved since the time period shown here (1990s) but I don't know if I believe that. I appreciate the honest portrayal here, not shying away from the violence or the horrible conditions the children go through. Humor is absent, and even romance (which would be so easy to add in) is never at the front of the story.I don't know how to sell this film other than that: if you care about world events, or care about the fate of innocent people ,you'll care about this movie. Even if you don't want this to be that heavy and just take it as entertainment (which it is on some levels), I think you'll still enjoy it (Jennifer Connelly!). Wish I could say more, but it's a cut and dry case: great movie, worth seeing, check it out.
Reviewed by lastliberal 9 / 10

God left this place a long time ago.

I have not been a Leonardo DiCaprio fan. I do like Djimon Hounsou and have seen several of his films. Watching this film, I have to say that both deserve every single award they received and should have probably gotten every award they were nominated for. I only hesitate to state this unequivocally because I have not seen The Last King of Scotland yet.This story needed to be told and I cannot imagine anyone telling it better that DiCaprio and Hounsou in the extremely capable hands of Edward Zwick, working with an outstanding script by Charles Leavitt.The story was tender, exciting, awesome, and, at times, just plain disgusting. The fact that there are countries that brainwash children and turn them against their parents and make killers out of them is inexcusable. The fact that these people are operating today is a blot of shame on all so-called civilized nations, including my own.This is our homeland. All humans came from this soil. What we allow to happen there in the name of beauty is disgusting.I cannot imagine anyone not owning this movie so as to watch it many times and remind ourselves that if we are not part of the solution to this problem, we share some of the blame for it.
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