A movie on quest for diamonds and the craze connected with it. It is a good movie with good thrills, fast paced , beautiful photography and good acting by Djimon Hounsou. This guy has really acted well and outshone lover boy Leonardo dicaprio, who has also put in good performance.
The movie is set in sierra leone civil war in 1999 where a white mercenary Dicaprio finds out that Solomon Vandy (played by Djimon) got a diamond of immense worth working in the mine fields under control of the rebel soldiers. The movie is about Dicaprio's effort to get the diamond from the place where it is hidden and using all he can to get to his goal.
Solomon Vandy is seperated from his family when he was abducted by the Revolutionary united front(RUF) and his only goal is to unite his family back. The movie also deals with child soldiers and the cruelty of the RUF and the government who are only interested in controlling the mine fields. His son in the meantime has been captured by RUF and brain washed in to being a soldier for the revolution.
It is a fast paced thriller though does briefly does touch causes like child soldiers and exploitation of Africa by the white man to satisy the american girls dreams of having a diamond on their finger. It makes you think for a second -if it is worth all the blood spilled to have a diamond on your finger where 50% of marriages any way end in divorce. The human life has no value in such a war filled atmosphere which Dicaprio states in a scene that God must have left africa long ago.
Good movie worth watching on your home video
The movie is set in sierra leone civil war in 1999 where a white mercenary Dicaprio finds out that Solomon Vandy (played by Djimon) got a diamond of immense worth working in the mine fields under control of the rebel soldiers. The movie is about Dicaprio's effort to get the diamond from the place where it is hidden and using all he can to get to his goal.
Solomon Vandy is seperated from his family when he was abducted by the Revolutionary united front(RUF) and his only goal is to unite his family back. The movie also deals with child soldiers and the cruelty of the RUF and the government who are only interested in controlling the mine fields. His son in the meantime has been captured by RUF and brain washed in to being a soldier for the revolution.
It is a fast paced thriller though does briefly does touch causes like child soldiers and exploitation of Africa by the white man to satisy the american girls dreams of having a diamond on their finger. It makes you think for a second -if it is worth all the blood spilled to have a diamond on your finger where 50% of marriages any way end in divorce. The human life has no value in such a war filled atmosphere which Dicaprio states in a scene that God must have left africa long ago.
Good movie worth watching on your home video
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