Best Movie Of Last Year

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2008)

In Australia, Blood Diamond was released in early 07. It took me over a year to see this and last night i settled in to watch. I expected a lot and hell yes did it deliver. This movie is savage, explicit, violent and so damn well made. It's back at the turn of the millennium 1999 when war ravaged on in Sierra Leone. Amdist it all, a fisherman is kidnapped and taken to toil and find diamonds. He finds one hell of a diamond and hides it. After he is put into jail following an attack he gets out. We basically follow the fisherman, Davey Archer (Dicaprio pulling out yet another brilliant performance) and a female journalist trying to find the hidden diamond amidst an awful war. Powerful images abound this film. Kids carrying machine guns and killing people to the tune of gangsta rap. Bodies strewn around the war ravaged streets yet beautiful poignant images as well none more poignant than the last image of Davey Archer dying in the sunshine. At peace. Please watch this film. It deserves so much applause.
9/10