Blood Diamond: A brilliant film about a shocking, inconvenient truth

Rating: 9/10 (2 February 2007)

The Blood Diamond is a really 'strong' film that presents facts (in particular, how diamonds reach our hands) in a most realistic way. Consequently, it contains many scenes with violence that in one point can be really brutal but once you have seen the whole movie you realise how necessary it was. Otherwise it would be completely outopic! It is so convincing that it might have the impact a documentary could have about the same subject; never wanting to buy a diamond again!
Leonardo Di Caprio was absolutely fantastic. It is another film-along with the departed-that graduated him as an actor. He makes you get exactly the feeling you're supposed to get; it is more like the role was written for him than him trying to fit in the role! Everything in this film, the way he talks and moves, to the last detail, were perfect, there were no flaws. Of course in the movie, generally, there might have been some mistakes but so few that I noticed none. Almost excellent directing, meaningful scenario and it definitely was full of adventure and emotion.
There were moments I wanted to cry out of rage or commotion. There was nor a second I got bored and once it was over, I was shocked. thrilled. moved.