Start to finish, Blood Diamond did not hold up

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2007)

Although DiCaprio gave one of his best performances, well at least the first one that I have seen where I did not think of Titanic, the movie just did not do it for me. It started off well, but with the introduction of a weak love story, you found yourself asking WHY? In the end, I enjoyed the film, but do not feel it necessary to promote it. I am sure that DiCaprio has enough legions of followers that the movie is doing very well. I am glad to see that he is growing up and taking on more challenging roles. However, in the end, the movie could have been so much more, but Hollywood put its finishing touches on it - it seemed to fall into a formula of how to make a movie. Too bad, it had real potential.