Blood Diamond (2006) movie poster

Blood Diamond (2006)

"It will cost you everything."
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👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 64%
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Runtime
2h 23m
Rated
R
Country
Germany, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.6/10 (8,200 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
64%
Metacritic
64

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer · 77% avg
Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy · 69% avg
Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen · 72% avg
Kagiso Kuypers as Dia Vandy
Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Coetzee · 70% avg
Antony Coleman as Cordell Brown
Benu Mabhena as Jassie Vandy
Anointing Lukola as N'Yanda Vandy

Is Blood Diamond good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 64%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#321 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#17 / 206 · 2006
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 10 · Edward Zwick
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By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. 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 countrywide. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller directed by Edward Zwick. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Danny Archer, a Rhodesian-born diamond smuggler operating in Sierra Leone during the 1999 civil war, who forms an uneasy alliance with Solomon Vandy, played by Djimon Hounsou, a Mende fisherman separated from his family and enslaved by Revolutionary United Front rebels in the diamond mines. When Archer learns that Solomon has hidden an enormous pink diamond of extraordinary value, he offers to help Solomon find his captured son in exchange for the stone, while American journalist Maddy Bowen, played by Jennifer Connelly, seeks to expose the conflict diamond trade.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Afrikaans accent and physically committed performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and Djimon Hounsou's Solomon — a man of quiet dignity fighting to preserve his family against impossible odds — earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film brought international attention to the conflict diamond industry and contributed to public support for the Kimberley Process certification scheme. Blood Diamond earned $171 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.

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