After 20 minutes it became clear just how bad it was

Rating: 1/10 (2 February 2007)

My best friend, The Lord Mighty Hofer, Mr Jerome Jeangirard, my cinema going brother in arms said to me after this terrible film that if you cant feel anything for the characters its because they are plastic, fake and utterly unconvincing on screen. I was never a great fan of Dicaprio and his pretty boy image but he blew me away in The Departed, I would go as far as to say he was a revelation in it. It is beyond me how he has been nominated for an Oscar for this role! The film was like an open book, we read it from start to finish. Yet again Hollywood produces an action film with serious undertones. The problem is in doing so the Director has managed to insult the intelligence of the audience and Africa as a whole. The problem in todays society is that people don't read enough and aren't particularly interested in what's going on outside the bottom of their popcorn box and so films like Blood Diamond just add to the stereotypical image we have of the third world. The worst part is that having done that the face of the western world is given a nice tidy conscience, the problem is that it just couldn't be further from the truth!