The Blood Diamond

Movie-The Blood Diamond.
Cast-Leonardo di Caprio, Djimon Honsou, Jeniffer Connelley and others.
Direction and Production-Edward Zwick.
In Africa, each time something of value is discovered, a conflict is bound to follow, be it oil, ivory, gold or diamonds. The day the white man decided to civilize the Dark Continent, the native African began to suffer.
The Blood Diamond is an excellent movie based on the Civil War in the tiny African country of Sierra Leone.

Leonardo di Caprio, is a soldier of fortune who smuggles diamonds for a living. Djimon Honsou, is a fisherman who is separated from his family by the rebels. They force him to work in the mines, while his son is trained to become a child-soldier. In the mines Djimon discovers a rare pink diamond, he tries to hide it when he is caught by Colonel Poison. Simultaneously, the government troops launch an attack on the rebels, and Djimon is captured and imprisoned with the Colonel. Leo who is arrested for smuggling diamonds is also imprisoned in the same cell and he overhears the Colonel accusing Djimon of hiding the diamond.

Leo plans Djimon's release and promises to reunite him with his family if Djimon led him to the diamond. We have a heroine Jeniffer Conelley who is an American journalist looking for a good story. Now the trio hunt for the diamond and search for Djimon's family members.

Does Djimon find his wife and son? Does Leo get the diamond? What happened to the child-soldier? To get answers for this watch the movie.

My Rating-3.5/5.