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Blood Diamond (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391152996
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 38
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: Afrikaans (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 115299
Number Of Items: 2
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
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Editorial Review:
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
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonard 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 UPC: 085391152996 Manufacturer No: 115299
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Flood Of Blood For A Piece Of Diamond
'Blood Diamond' is a very Hollywood film but at the same time it stays very true to the facts. Zwick does not overload the viewer with its 'Hollywoodness'. There are bombs exploding and lots of shooting and killing but it's not overdone like in other flicks. The enigmatic African landscape is stunningly captured (even though it wasn't specifically filmed in Sierra Leone) and the score is both mesmerizing and haunting. The cinematography is superb as it gives the film a slick feel and also gives the ... Read More
Rating: - All Too Real
While this film was criticized for being overly-melodramatic, it remains an accurate portrait of the many issues surrounding the diamond trade in Africa. The Kimberley Process may have sharply reduced the number of illicit stones reaching some markets, but people like the rebels, smugglers, and traders pictured in this movie have no trouble whatsoever turning their ill-gotten stones into cash even today. The blood diamond trade flourishes in not only Sierra Leone but in Angola and the Democratic Republic ... Read More
Rating: - Movie: 4.75/5 Picture Quality: 2.75~4.25/5 Sound Quality: 4.75/5 Extras: 3.75/5
Version: 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 movie
Others 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.
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Rating: - Wore Out My Recliner
No 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?
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