Davis Keck
3 years
ago
Djimon is the best. Movie itself is more message than story.
Syed Ashruf
over 4 years
ago
TIA, and Natural Resources Exploitation in the Third World... Represented quite well!
Jonathan Evans
almost 5 years
ago
Film cops flack from folk who know Africa better than me, yet I find performances stellar.
ashley lee
6 years
ago
I like this film quite a bit and adore Leo, but his accent was distractingly off at times.
Melissa Høegh Marcher
6 years
ago
Fantastic movie. Brutal and intriguing. And the cast is absolutely amazing.
Annika Løchte Taylor
over 6 years
ago
Amazingly written, filmed and performed. So realistic it becomes hard to watch at times.
Justin L. Clemons
over 6 years
ago
Good awareness story about conflict diamonds in Sierre Leone.
Saffron Beatson
7 years
ago
Apart from Leonardo's South African accent- I found the movie extremely interesting.
Andrea Ortiz
over 7 years
ago
Good story, very touching. Amazing acting.
Tracey Orr
over 7 years
ago
Leo loses his accent halfway through this movie.
Marcel
over 7 years
ago
Very truthful and quite realistic for a movie out of Hollywood. Great acting performances!
Kakra
almost 8 years
ago
9.5/10
Izennah Hogan
8 years
ago
Crying (bawling) as the credits rolled... again. Oh sweet Leo.
Nate McBean
8 years
ago
You rated this 4 stars on 5/2/2010 (netflix)
Kyle McConaghy
over 8 years
ago
Still good even though my mother-in-law gave away the ending.
Pieter Peach
almost 9 years
ago
There's something about Leonardo with a South African accent that just doesn't work for me
Blood Diamond is a 2006 political thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in African war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies across the world.
Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1992-2002, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections.
The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, is in reference to an actual meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa in 2000 and led to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which seeks to certify the origin of diamonds in order to curb the trade in conflict diamonds. The film received mixed, but...