a great movie - 9 out of 10 but it was too short!

Rating: 9/10 (27 April 2008)

like the previous comment, i would like to say that i thought Blood Diamond was a great movies and one of the best I've ever seen. You do learn heaps about the wars in Africa and what is a little disturbing is the child soldiers but if you don't mind the violence, swearing and 'disturbing material' then you would love this movie. it has a bit of everything: romance, comedy, violence - and most importantly a not all happy ending. With regards to the ending, I think it was good that the fisherman and his son were reunited and everything turned out happy for them but I also think that Danny Archer dying was good in a way - like sure we would have liked him to go on smuggling diamonds but be realistic - he was a bad guy! And that was the interesting thing about this move - the main character (Danny Archer - played by Leonardo Di'Caprio) was the bad character. A great movie but the only criticism I would have for it is that it was too short for my liking and I would have liked to hear some of the speech the black fisherman made at the end. Great movie - 9 out of 10.