Movies: Blood Diamond

I'm going to start off writing my reviews about movies. I'm starting it with Blood Diamond. It's a gritty telling of how many lives your diamond ring might have cost.

Leonardo DiCaprio manifests yet another new image in his career, playing a Rhodesian mercenary turned conflict diamond smuggler working in war-torn Sierra Leone. He crosses paths with an African fisherman who was forced to work at gun point in a diamond mine where he finds a rare and very large pink diamond. This fast moving action flick picks up speed as they endeavour to retreive the buried diamond from under the noses of the rebel forces. At the same time, with the help of a female journalist they try to reunite the fisherman with his separated family, one of which has been ‘recruited’ into the said militia.A good yarn to watch with plenty of excitement and emotions, and Leonardo manages to carry off the accent reasonably convincingly. Some of the characters might be cynical but the film itself does search for hope. The heart of the picture is the human cost. Characters see the wealth of the diamond and are destroyed by it. Worth renting on DVD or downloading it from some torrent site. hahaha