A story that makes you think

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2007)

When I sat down to watch Blood Diamond I had a certain expectations of what I thought the movie should be about, but after watching it my expectations was totally thrown out and I took on the point of view of the director. Being from South Africa, we thought this movie would make us look like a bunch of savages, but instead we get a movie that shows just how far one guy would go to save his family and his home. And that theme made the movie for me universally applicable, because no matter where you are in the world a man always set his family's safety before his own.
What made Blood Diamond even more excellent is that the plot of the film is more character bases that action based. It relies on it's characters to tell the story and not the action, as in so many action movies coming out of Hollywood these days. What would killing of women and children be without human compassion, which we find in Jennifer Connelly. Leonardo gives a performance that is not only memorable but also applicable to everyone who sat down to watch this movie. And his use of the one Afrikaans word was hilarious.
All in all Blood Diamond is a spectacular movie that does not offend the person watching but rather leaves him/her with a feeling of gratitude for what they have in their lives.