Blood Diamond An Excellent Film

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2009)

Blood Diamond is an excellent film with a compelling story, plenty of action, drama, suspense, and character development. The movie breezes by even with a running time of 143 minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio is terrific as Danny Archer a South African ex-soldier turned smuggler. DiCaprio has really established himself as one of the best actors in Hollywood today with films like The Avaitor, Gangs Of New York, Catch Me If You Can, Titanic, and The Departed to name a few and he continues to show that in Blood Diamond. Equally impressive are Jennifer Connelly as Maddie Bowen a dedicated journalist and possible love interest and Djimon Honsou as Solomon Vandy a Mende fisherman who finds a rare pink diamond that could help him get back his family. At first Archer uses Solomon in order to get the diamond so that he can payback his employer for a deal that went bad earlier on in the film but a bond eventually grows between the two men that becomes an admiring friendship. All the supporting actors are good in the small roles including Arnold Vosloo and Michael Sheen. The director Edward Zwick does an admirable job of bringing this movie to the big screen which couldn't have been an easy task. If you're looking for an entertaining film to watch then Blood Diamond is the movie for you. It has it all action, drama, suspense, thrills, adventure, some humor and a little romance that make for an enjoyable film to watch.