Blood Diamond [Blu-ray]

Buy This Item Blood Diamond [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $19.95  on 9-20-2008     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. Reader Reviews Carbon is one of the most plentiful elements on the Earth's surface. Certain firms have control of the diamond trade world wide ( a cartel) and have driven the price artificially high. Greed, poverty and politics have combined to make Africa still the "dark Continent". This movie takes advantage of that situation for a blood bath type action adventure where the hero ( or one of them) dies. News has become the new weapon...

Blood Diamond [Blu-ray] Available from Amazon Price: $19.95 Updated on 9-20-2008.

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