Good but.....

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2007)

Omg, could have shaved off 30 mins of this movie if the makers didn't try and extend its audience to include the usual pointless love scenes.
Hmmmm. Well this film was realistic in its portrayal of the conflict in Sierra Leone thats for sure. As someone that was in Sieraa Leone around Freetown aged 15 in 1985 when a coup occurred whilst I was watching a football match and also being offered to smuggle diamonds back to the U.K. by Lebonesse and English in toothpaste tubes (which I didn't do) this film echoes the continuing rape of third world countries by government entities such as my own. This is nothing new of course and 22 years later things are still the same. Blood diamonds indeed.
Leonardo is pretty good in this and the accent not half bad. His character is a bit weak though as South African soldiers are usually tight lipped and hard as nails to the extent of eating glass with shots of booze. They would'nt divulge information to a newly met reporter thats for sure ! Sharing a bottle with a 'kaffa' is something also highly unlikely with a soldier from Rhodesia. White S.A. don't like or respect the native inhabitants of Africa.
Films worth a look, bit long and the love scenes excruciating for me but thats my personal taste.
Nothing new here