Blood Diamond

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2006)

Tugging on the emotions of viewers, keeping people on the edge of seats, Blood Diamond is supreme in its ability to engage the sense of adventure, the horror of American greed and how it effects those who come near it. Behind the lust for money and diamonds can be seen the desperation that greed can bring about and the dehumanizing that is the result, or vice versa. The audience is asked in the beginning of the movie to see the events through the eyes of an African man separated from his family as well as through the eyes of a smuggler and a journalist. The end result, the viewer is then forced to come to their own conclusions.