Blood Diamond is a true Gem.

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2006)

What can I say? Edward Zwick has mastered a phenomenal challenge to bring awareness to movie goers embellishing political blasphemy and socio-economic curtailment of life regarding blood diamonds. Leonardo DiCaprio's acting career has reveled in subjects that perhaps not many have come to really appreciate. He is not "just" an actor. He is trying to ferment the actualization that there is a major and disturbing reality of corruption and death in countries worldwide, and whilst doing so has brought forth a deep meaning of self-reliance, when attempting to embellish his role playing. DiCaprio has surely defined himself as an action star, with more finesse and confidence than anyone working in that field today.
Blood Diamond visualizes the physical deprivation of humanity, through the limb dismemberment and massacre of the Sierra Leone people. It truly exemplifies how individuals wielding a gun on a pick-up truck can claim themselves as a revolutionary, no matter what the age group. This film only scratches the surface of the growing problems in Africa, describing these problems with a simple acronym, TIA, standing for This Is Africa, an internationally mutilated abyss.
Djimon Hounsou, who has been appropriately typecast as the African fisherman, delivers a heartfelt, honest and tear inducing performance. DiCaprio and Hounsou's performances will definitely be worthy of the proverbial Oscar nod this year. How many actors do we know that can make his audience feel what he sees with his eyes. Unfortunately, Jennifer Connelly brings one her most dull performances, never coming close to the caliber of acting that surrounds her. Blood Diamond delivers direct assertions as a socio-political thriller, and hopefully this will be another jab at the sheer evasion of this much ignored topic.