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An harrowing action-adventure and an social commentary at the same time. Djimon Hounsou's performance will move you to cheers and tears.
A fisherman caught up in the civil war of Sierra Leone reluctanctly teams up with an amoral smuggler to retrieve a precious stone in the hope that it will secure freedom for his family. Edward Zwick has made a career of making worthy adventure-with-a-message movies which have ten...( read more)
Wow. at times this movie seemed a bit drawn out more than necessary, but at the end of the movie -- which, by the way, was one extremely powerful ending -- the entire plot and flow in hindsight was necessary to bring out the story as seen from the eyes of the insider to the conf...( read more)
A good film that highlights important issues that many have forgotten or never even knew about. It?s a shame then when a contrived Hollywood varnish is coated on what could have been a five star film! Still, worth watching though!
Very very good hard hitting emotional film of real life tradgedy. Decaprio is excellent and nails his slimy SA role (best performance yet) and Hounsou is also excellent as usual (a close Gladiator beater) making the whole film tremendous in both performance, location and looks.
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what a powerful movie. it's really upsetting to see the conflict and war caused over diamonds and disgusting to see how we aren't doing anything and are even making the problem worse by keeping the majority of the diamonds locked up to drive up the prices. diamonds aren't rare. t...( read more)
A Sad but wickedly enjoyable movie. Kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time! I recently attended an event called We day which was put on by the free the children foundation. At we day there was a child solider from Africa who spoke, and his speech was so powerful. Most of t...( read more)
tout les personnages sont stéréotipés, on resent bien holywood mais ce film est au-dela de tout... Cela un chez d'oeuvre visuelle par ses paysage, par son scenario mais aussi et surtout par son extraordinaire bande sonore que jai trouver absolument magnifique.
