This film mixes City of the Gods and The Constant Gardener, but it goes way too soft

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2007)

Great performance by Leonardo DiCaprio, which again proves he is a great actor when he wants to. The movie portrays the civil war in Sierra Leone, a battle sponsored by the diamonds that people slave about in the mud to get.
It is a good movie, worth seeing and praised even by people who have lived in the area. However, I felt it went soft in order to accommodate the cinema market. When the feelings get strong, the movie goes easy, inserts a funny moment or a glorious speech. The Americans are shown as compassionate people fighting for the good of mankind, while the diamond companies that pray on the African misery just exceptions, with "good" diamond dealers coming to testify and support the ban on "blood diamond" commerce.
Memorable part of the movie, an old man saying he hopes they don't find oil there, or they'd really be screwed. Bottom line: good movie, but it doesn't touch The Constant Gardener, Cidade de Deus or Syriana.