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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0085391117629 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 111762 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 20, 2007 Running Time: 143 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 08, 2006 Editorial Review: Product Description: An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory The Last Samurai) this urgent intensely moving adventure shapes gripping human stories and heart-pounding action into a modern epic of profound impact.Running Time: 143 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391117629 Manufacturer No: 111762 Amazon.com: Leonardo DiCaprio puts a handsome face on an ugly industry: In parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil warfare, killing thousands of innocents and drafting preteen children as vicious soldiers. DiCaprio (The Departed) plays Danny Archer, a white African soldier-turned-diamond-smuggler who gets wind of a large raw jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman (Djimon Hounsou, In America) recently escaped from enslavement by a brutal rebel leader. Archer offers a deal: He'll help Vandy find his war-scattered family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Drawn into this web of exploitation is journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly, Little Children), who agrees to help if Archer will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds make their way into the hands of the corporations who sell them to the Western world. DiCaprio is compelling because he never flinches from Archer's utter ruthlessness; Archer ends up doing the morally justifiable thing, but only because his desperate greed has led him to it. Hounsou and Connelly, though saddled with all the moral and political speeches, rise above the cant and keep the movie's treacherously formulaic plot rooted in human characters. But in the end, the story won't stick with you as much as the dead stillness in the child soldiers' eyes; the horror of African civil strife refuses to be contained by Blood Diamond's uplifting message--and the movie is all the more potent as a result. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Movie: 4.75/5 Picture Quality: 2.75~4.25/5 Sound Quality: 4.75/5 Extras: 3.75/5Version: U.S.A / Region Free VC-1 BD-50 Running time: 2:23:21 Movie size: 22,440,222,720 bytes Disc size: 30,563,539,040 bytes Average Video Bit Rate: 12.71 Mbps LPCM 5.1 4608Kbps 16-bit English DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps English / French-Quebec / Spanish Subtitles: English SDH / English / French / Spanish * Audio Commentary * Documentary * Featurettes * Music Video * Theatrical Trailer * Video Diary Vignettes Rating:  - American, who loves this movieOthers have stated it, great movie. Is there some America bashing, maybe a little. But what all these people reviewing harp on is a scene in a bar with Danny and Maddy first meeting. She kind of attacks him for his role in this and he comes back at her with an analogy of how they are in the same business, only she is American so he tells it in relation to her nationality. Thats pretty much it and that when they first meet a TV is on with the whole Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky fiasco going on. ... Read More Rating: - Wore Out My ReclinerNo doubt diamonds have been smuggled out of Africa at a deadly cost. No doubt many African nations have been torn asunder by civil war. No doubt there have been horrendous atrocities. And no doubt preteen boys have been literally snatched from the arms of their parents and turned into ruthless killers. But when a movie, BLOOD DIAMOND, depicts all of the above in such a brutal, graphic nature, the question is begged: Is it really that bad over there. . .or, perhaps, has there been a little embellishment? ... Read More Rating: - DIAMONDS ARE FOREVERThis film is part-story and part-sermon, and the sermon is better than the story. Some parts are exclusively sermon such as the screen messages at the beginning and the end or the moralistic pontifications of the committee that deliberates on the diamond trade. In terms of length, most of the film consists of the story of a young soldier of fortune turned diamond smuggler, but the basic moral has been enunciated so clearly at the start that nothing in the tale of Danny Solomon and Maddy can be understood as independent ... Read More Rating: - WOW! Africa exposed! Finally!Great story, great acting, superb director, unbeatable (for once)historic accuracy! this is the way movies handling conflict zones should be made! My highest regards and compliments to the director, the producers, the cast and the staff!! |
