Fresh
Both excitingly well made and dispiritingly formulaic.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Blood Diamond
It will cost you everything.
2006 · 2h 23m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Edward Zwick
Overview
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 and cast
- Edward Zwick Director
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer
- Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy
- Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen
- Kagiso Kuypers as Dia Vandy
- Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Coetzee
- Antony Coleman as Cordell Brown
- Benu Mabhena as Jassie Vandy
- Anointing Lukola as N'Yanda Vandy
- David Harewood as Captain Poison
- Basil Wallace as Benjamin Kapanay
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Blood Diamond has all the cinematic punch of a lengthy Nation article.
Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York
Rotten
It doesn't entirely evade the issue at its core - conflict diamonds - in favour of pure action by way of guns and planes, thrills and spills; but it hardly embraces the subject fully either.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
It succeeds well at what it sets out to do: wrapping a worthy message in a compelling story.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
[Director Zwick] is craftsman enough that the pace never slackens, the chase scenes thrill, and the battle scenes sicken. And if it makes viewers think twice about buying their sweethearts that hard-won hunk of ice for Christmas, so much the better.
Dana Stevens, Slate
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