UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
ubcdomyat
One of the great movies i have ever seen,,thnx d'caprio ,,i never regert anytime i spent watching any movie for you,,your movies are deep with a lot of ideas
mundhra_mayank
A story about the violence over resources in the worst affected continent of the world, the film is great in capturing the nerve of everything that is wrong in Africa by means of characters who are there for different reasons. The story revolves around the main characters who represent the different agents at work in Sierra Leone, a country on the brink of a coup by extremists. The movie begins with Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) who is captured by the extremists as a worker to mine for diamonds. The warlords buy guns by selling these diamonds to Dicaprio (Danny Archer) who is a smuggler in cahoots with the diamond industry and the army. Djimon comes across a huge diamond which Dicaprio gets interested. Meanwhile Maddy Bowen(Jennifer Connelly) is a journalist following the story of blood diamonds and gets involved in the whole mess.This is a great movie from director Edward Zwick, who is successful in portraying the alternate views on Africa through the characters. Here's my 5 points:1. The central thing to Blood Diamond is the characters. Both Djimon and Dicaprio were nominated to the Academy awards and rightly so. Dicaprio does a South African accent an you love everytime he says "bru". He jus plays a smooth badass smuggler who knows how to deal with the government, the army and the bandits. Djimon on the other hand plays a very strong character who is looking to reunite with his family. The actors have their heart in the characters they are playing and they seem very realistic. 2. Dialogues are seldom great in movies not based on books, but not blood diamond. A movie dealing with such a serious topic, with characters who so strongly believe in their version of Africa, has to be driven by great dialogues. All the violence around them has shaped not just heir beliefs but also their view of the world which is reflected in the words they speak, like when Dicaprio says "God has long ago forsaken this land." Watch this once more just for the dialogues.3. Zwick does a great directorial job. Had this movie not involved so much of violence, right from the start to the end, this could have very well been a great adventure movie. The characters are constantly on the run through a maze of army and terrorists to reach the diamond, seems like a plot for a video game. And during all this there is the recurrent theme of Djimon trying to be a family man he is supposed to be. Zwick does keep the flame of positivity alive by using this angle.4. Music wise, the movie is awesome. They did not try to get a very African type of music which often is the case with movies based in Africa. That would have suited a movie based on African culture. Here the role of the music and background score was the aid the narrative, not be the narrative itself. Blood diamond got 2 Academy Award and one Grammy nomination for the sound and you know why when you watch this. It changes its tone as the movie changes its tone very beautifully, as the movie shifts gears from violence to action to emotions in a matter of seconds.Over all, the movie is great if you're in mood for some power packed performances and action. Watch it on with a set of big headphones on!
sakibnazmus-30326
Africa is the most richest subcontinent according its mines. But these mines are not for natives but for western rulers. Africa was dominated by several colonial nations like Belgium and Britain. That time their rulers used its natural resources for their own needs. After WWII colonial rulers flew from their colony and new giant communism and capitalism entered. They use wealthy Africa according to their wish. Now full of natural resources appear as curse for its natives. To collect gold, coal, copper, diamond etc easily white people creates conflicts. And the whole story is about conflict diamond. Arms business is very profitable in Africa and west sell arms to gain diamond cheaply. In 2003 about 40 nations signed a bill not buy conflict diamonds for the sake of humanity. UN sent special forces for peace keeping and in that forces Bangladesh sent huge in number. Bangladesh armed forces put some extraordinary achievement to bring peace in Sierra Leone. In exchange of honor Bangla is the second official language of Sierra Leone.
AchrafMajdi
The diamond industry should not only have stopped but should be responsible for rebuilding these communities and countries and compensating families and amputees for the rest of their lives. We are all human...right ? Why should the CEOs sit on a throne of luxury while others suffer the most atrocious of aftermath. physically, socially, mentally and emotionally. This makes me so mad, so angry. All weapons manufacturers should be banned to even manufacture.This movie is the epitome of perfection, the actors outdid themselves, the cinematography is just fantastic, ugh the sound-racks are so intense and emotional.This is by far Leonardo's best performance ever at least for me. Jennifer Connolly did a heck of a job with her splendid performance Djimon Hounsou made me feel like i wasn't watching a movie, more like a reality show on African people suffering...There's no other words to describe the excellence of the movie! Edward Zwick is such a boss, I hope more directors would make these kind of movies.
