Exciting old-style action-adventure movie with a lingering message

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2007)

Many of the films we saw as kids wereaction-adventure with big stars of the day, such as Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, etc., and a host of leading ladies that the good guys either had fun withof course without fornicationor saved from distress: Susan Hayward, Marilyn Monroe, Deborah Kerr, Shirley MacLaine, and so on.
Blood Diamond is a throwback sort of movie to that action-adventure genre I remember as a kid. We don't see it much anymore. Action movies like the Indiana Jones series or Jurassic Park, as entertaining as they are, aren't intended to be taken seriously...
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Brian Wright Copyright 2007