I'm so impressed.

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2014)

Blood Diamond is one hell of a well done motion picture but the one thing I was particularly impressed with in all of the film was Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. I say particularly impressed because DiCaprio's performance was outstanding and it was worth the Oscar nomination. It was an amazing effort he put there and I'm proud of him for that. I say that I'm proud of him because he's my favorite actor. Another way I would also describe (and love to describe) DiCaprio's performance is dazzling. Djimoun Hounsou and Jennifer Connely play well too. Djimoun Hounsou delivers an incredible performance and acts and behaves exactly the way you would expect a Sierra Leonan and Mende guy to in real life regarding the situation in which he finds himself into during the story. Jennifer Connely is well cast as the American journalist, she is beautiful and had sensual charm, for which I fell under. The story and the way of telling it was also impressive. More good things from this film include its beautiful locations, striking comments, strong humor, moving emotions, excellent character development, fine acting and the interesting romance shared between DiCaprio and Connely's characters, plus there are enough of them to satisfy. Congratulations Mr. Zwick (the director of the movie in case you don't know who is this person that I'm mentioning) for managing to make a really, really good movie and also for the strong and detailed focus put on the historically famous and important illegal diamond trades and for not shying away from the terrible massacres which took place in Sierra Leone in 1999 and the historical accuracy of it all. My rating for Blood Diamond is an 8.0/10