Blood Diamond [HD DVD] [2006]

RRP £24.99 Lowest New Price £4.98

Suitable for 15 years and over Warner Home Video Release date: Monday 9th of July 2007 Starring: Michael Sheen, Jennifer Connelly, Jimi Mistry, Basil Wallace, Leonardo DiCaprio, Director(s): Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region code: 2 Running time: 138 minutes Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £24.99
Great movie
Review date: 2008-03-28 Rating: 8 out of 10

This great Hollywood blockbuster is one of a series of thought provoking movies along with the constant gardener and shooting dogs .Filmed in South Africa , London and Mozambique ,the result is excellent and the photography in this movie is a good as it gets .

It tells the story of two people who must find a very large diamond for very different reasons , one to save his son and the other to become rich . The action scenes are very realistic is terms of showing the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone as Saving private Ryan showed the landings in Normandy .

Leonardo DiCaprio deserves praise for his portrait of the South African mercenary he developed very convincing South African accent , he and Djimon Honsou work very well together and there is great scene when their characters clashed over racial issues .

Michael Sheen delivers another impeccable villain role as the unscrupulous diamond merchant who will buy anything from a war zone .

The only character that is not so good is Jennifer Connelly , also her relationship with Leonardo Dicaprio seems a bit far fetched and the romance is not very convincing.


4 and a half stars , only if it had a different female role ....