exceptional film in all its aspects, and Mr. Dicaprio is on his way to become a Hollywood legend...

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2007)

This film forced me to write this comment. After seeing it twice i felt compelled to tell other people how great it is.The film takes you in an African experience without one second of boredom, which is fair enough as the movie approaches 3 hours, from the first scene till the end credits you are sitting tight in your seat waiting for the next event in the journey. so lets take a look at the people/reasons behind this success. first, Mr. Leavit's screenplay is nothing less than amazing, he managed to mix the truth about whats going on in Africa (hopeless for many people, maybe including myself) with a little bit of hope. i don't wanna add any spoilers but all i can say is that the story is nice, coherent, and very touching. second, Mr. Dicaprio, wow what a role, the man is going to be a legend believe me, and if it wasn't for the competition being very very tough this year, he'd have walked away with the Oscar, he plays a very good ''Danny Archer'' and he's overall look regardless of his acting actually fits in as a dutch who was born in Africa, his accent is nice, and he gave the role a the real blend and depth it required to stick in your mind for a long time. third, Mr. Hounsou; his role as "solo" here approaches his role in Amistad, which was excellent, when you see him in this movie you have no choice except to believe that he's living in "Sierra Leone" and that he is really afraid for his family and not acting, i really liked the way he portrayed the character. Lets talk about the rest, Jennifer Connelly is a good as the reporter who cares, but you know whats the problem with her, she's too beautiful that you'll concentrate on how beautiful she is every time she's in front of the camera (is it just me or she's getting more beautiful every movie), over all the casting was very well made and perfect people were given the roles. Mr. Zwick did a good job directing things, the movie is a hard job and as it contains lots of extras and battle scenes that require lots of effort, but Zwick did it and the movie came out the way it did, nothing can be done more than what had been already done. the editing as well as the sound editing were good, you can't find something that is not in place or hear what you didn't suppose to, these are gun shots and these are the African forests, as previously said everything in order. Finally i have to say that the art direction of the battlefields was very precise and the scenes came out very tense. oh, i can't not to mention the music in the movie, that was one hell of OST and hats off to the composer. hopefully the DVD will come out soon because i'm first in the line. Good luck everyone and be fine.