Blood Diamond (Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  318 reviews
Sales Rank: 5020
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: Afrikaans (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 143 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D111761D
UPC: 085391117612
EAN: 0085391117612
ASIN: B000MZHW4A
Theatrical Release Date: December 8, 2006
Release Date: March 20, 2007
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| • | 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 bea |
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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
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 Dramatic but Real February 3, 2010
H. Chan
Great storyline without any un-real romantic makes you believe this is what happens. There are many other great movies like Enemy at the Gate, Pearl Harbour all failed at romance.
Characters are so real like watching documentary films. Should be awarded Oscar.
Five stars!
He just gets better and better February 1, 2010
K. A. Byars (Payson, Ut)
This is one of my favorite films with Leonardo. I was not a fan of his when he first came out as a "heart throb" years ago. Now I am convinced that he is one of the top actors out there. This show is a must see. Yes, I just talked about the acting--but the message of the show is something I feel that everyone needs to be educated on. The situation involving the diamonds is a real life concern and I think this show, even though hollywood, does a beautiful job expressing it.
My favorite movie January 27, 2010
G. Waldhauser
Having spent time in Africa in various places and even met the guys from EO I have to say, this movie is great! Especially DiCaprio made an excellent performance and must have had an excellent language coach for the African dialect (South Afrikan dialect as well as Afrenglish of West Africa); great picture, great story, good action;
Blood Diamond December 29, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
This movie is a work of amazingly orchestrated chaos. A visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. A must see movie
 Good but not memorable December 15, 2009
Shilom (MI)
Decent plot, good cast, good watch, but fades afterwards. Like many movies these days. Recommended for any Leo fans and a decent watch all in all, just not the best.
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