brutal and bloody story

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2010)

This is an excellent film for a number of reasons. The story moves along at a fair old pace and DI Caprio's performance is superb.The film is beautifully shot and the cinematography is excellent . I thought it would be difficult for DI Caprio to shed his pretty boy image but he has done it with ease in this film. He plays a nasty piece of work who turns to smuggling diamonds when he leaves the army .DI Caprio finds out about a huge diamond found by Solomon Vaisey and hidden in the bush.DI Caprio's character promises to find Vaisey's family in return for getting the diamond . The scenes of the war are brutal. It shows children having their hands chopped off . There's no happy ending - DI Caprio dies on a hillside protecting Vaisey who make sit back to London to sell the diamond