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Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo
directed by: Edward Zwick

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391117629
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Running Time: 143 minutes
Sales Rank: 2993
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 08, 2006

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Product Description:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). 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 across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory The Last Samurai) this urgent intensely moving adventure shapes gripping human stories and heart-pounding action into a modern epic of profound impact.Running Time: 143 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391117629 Manufacturer No: 111762

Amazon.com:
Leonardo DiCaprio puts a handsome face on an ugly industry: In parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil warfare, killing thousands of innocents and drafting preteen children as vicious soldiers. DiCaprio (The Departed) plays Danny Archer, a white African soldier-turned-diamond-smuggler who gets wind of a large raw jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman (Djimon Hounsou, In America) recently escaped from enslavement by a brutal rebel leader. Archer offers a deal: He'll help Vandy find his war-scattered family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Drawn into this web of exploitation is journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly, Little Children), who agrees to help if Archer will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds make their way into the hands of the corporations who sell them to the Western world. DiCaprio is compelling because he never flinches from Archer's utter ruthlessness; Archer ends up doing the morally justifiable thing, but only because his desperate greed has led him to it. Hounsou and Connelly, though saddled with all the moral and political speeches, rise above the cant and keep the movie's treacherously formulaic plot rooted in human characters. But in the end, the story won't stick with you as much as the dead stillness in the child soldiers' eyes; the horror of African civil strife refuses to be contained by Blood Diamond's uplifting message--and the movie is all the more potent as a result. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Nice and Safe Subject....
I enjoyed this movie alot but it seems that they picked a nice safe topic to rant about. Diamonds? I suppose that they are being used to fund those various brush wars in Africa. I did like how they also brought up the topic of child soldiers.

What I didn't like was how they seemed to blame the west for much of the strife in Africa. We buy the diamonds. We arm them (never mind the AK's). Etc. Yet at some point, don't they have to take responsibility for their future?

Rating:

- Powerful and Unforgettable
I may be alone here, but this is really one of the best films of 2006. Loads of action, bits of melodrama, and amazing performances from Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy and especially Leonardo DiCaprio as smuggler Danny Archer. This is the kind of role DiCaprio needed to prove his talent.

As usual with Zwick films, there just isn't enough time for him to tell the tale he is supposed to tell. The film would be better if only a little longer. Instead, much of the intended plot is drowned ... Read More

Rating:

- I will never buy a diamond
To start off let me go ahead and say that Blood Diamond is a excellent film and a must-see. The setting is 1999 Sierra Leone, at that time ravaged by civil war. Danny Archer (Dicaprio), a ex-mercenary turned diamond smuggler joins forces with Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) to recover a rare pink diamond, and to rescue Vandy's son, who has been forced into being a child soldier under rebels. This was all around a great movie, the best of 2006 if you ask me. Its stellar cast also includes Jennifer ... Read More

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- Africain misery in HD DVD
There are quite of lot of people out there who are not sold on Leonardo Dicaprio's acting abilites--I am not one of them. He delivers a strong performance in this topical drama and deserved an nomination for Best Actor as well. The picture and sound in HD DVD is superb and I whole-heartedly recommend you buy this one to show off your system!! Dijmon Hounsou is also superb in this and I believe he was also nominated. The only flaw I can see in this is the beautiful Jennifer Connelly--she has no chemistry ... Read More

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- Over-rated
Typical Hollywood shoot-em-up. Lots of fairly nauseating violence. The pc message resonates with some, but I found this all predictable fare. The white man/black man buddy/partner genre has been done to death. Here it is again. Throw in some S. Africa and Western guilt over what Westerners imagine must be going on in Africa and you have the usual formula. This has to be DiCaprio's worst movie, five Academy Award nominations or not. Still, it can hold up to a viewing if you get it out of the library for free, ... Read More

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