What's the color of money?

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2007)

When wars are fought and weapons are needed the question comes where to get the money for them. When the grounds are rich of a rare mineral otherwise known as diamond that question is quickly answered. Then, as a last step, for the cheap mining of this rare material the locals are forced into slavery.
Blood Diamond plays around exactly that. Starting of its story when a diamond smuggler hears that a huge rough pink diamond has been found by one of the slaves and hidden somewhere. When a stone of such rarity is found greed blooms like a dirty flower and it is no mystery that the chase is about to begin.
So far the story. Blood Diamond is a combination of adventure style and thriller, following its three leads character on their travels through Africa, during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The way it is put together feels OK - it isn't entirely impossible to feel for the characters as they make their way across the land. Some of the scenes reminded me of other films, featuring the same level of brutality and wrongness (children should never hold weapons, and surely not being forced to use them). Scenery shots are downright beautiful, musical score is good.
All in all, a rather interesting film to watch and one that makes time fly by - even for its length of nearly 2.5 hours.
8 out of 10 hands with blood on them