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Blood Diamond
This story is based on how businessmen, a smuggler and fishermen are on a mission to possess diamonds in an unstable country who has become a battle zone as mutinous forces and government both want control
31 August 1962, London, England, UK
16 June 1962, Pretoria, South Africa
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
29 July 1972, Schenectady, New York, USA
25 July 1967, Durban, South Africa
July 06, 2010
Despite fine performances, Blood Diamond is an unfortunate disappointment due to heavy handed direction which dilutes its message.
February 02, 2009
Blood Diamond is a movie zircon. It doesn't cut glass, but it cuts plot, character, and credibility. It could be Hotel Rwanda, but instead it's Motel Deep-Six.
December 08, 2006
It succeeds well at what it sets out to do: wrapping a worthy message in a compelling story.
March 28, 2014
It's clear that Blood Diamond takes quite a while to wholeheartedly get going...
February 28, 2008
Yes, Blood Diamond is preachy, but it's a sermon we need to hear.
February 03, 2007
Blood Diamond has all the cinematic punch of a lengthy Nation article.
April 23, 2009
After centuries of raping Africa for its resources, now we exploit its misery for our amusement.
December 08, 2006
[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.
January 25, 2007
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.
June 29, 2007
Both excitingly well made and dispiritingly formulaic.
December 11, 2006
DiCaprio proves himself the most watchful and watchable actor of his age.