A civil war of blood.

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2007)

"Blood Diamond" overall is a movie with a meaning of more than diamond trading or smuggling, but it shows a powerful message of how greed and corruption can cause a nation into a bloody civil war. The performance given in the movie are pretty good from Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou and the action and adventure move along to make this a pounding epic. The plot focuses on two different objectives also. DiCaprio is an ex-mercenary turned diamond smuggler who joins up with Hounsou a Mende fisherman during the civil war of 1999 Sierra Leone, both with objectives to recover a diamond, and to rescue the fisherman's son who has became a child solider in a brutal rebel war. Overall this is an OK film not the best though you really have to be into international history to enjoy it well.