Danny's moral opposite is Solomon Vandy (Hounsou, rectitude made flesh), a humble Sierra Leone fisherman who's torn from his family and forced to mine diamonds for an infamously brutal rebel group.

While Blood Diamond does not (and cannot) offer the definitive answers to these questions, it asks them in some compelling and legitimate ways. Danny and Solomon are literally dodging bullets in ...

“Blood Diamond” is a visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. Director Edward Zwick and company give it just the kind of explosive elements it needs to ...

That includes a cynical Zimbabwe smuggler, Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), and a Sierra Leone fisherman, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), who has found a large and priceless diamond and buried it.

When an idealistic American journalist (Jennifer Connelly) lectures smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) about the horrors of the diamond trade in war-torn Sierra Leone, his half-hearted ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is coiled to spring as Danny Archer, a former mercenary from Zimbabwe, now in the business of smuggling conflict diamonds, so named because their sale is used to subsidize civil ...

Blood Diamond: Entertaining Action, Flawed Story. by Alex Billington December 8, 2006. Edward Zwick's (Last Samurai, Courage Under Fire) latest film, Blood Diamond, explores the world of conflict ...

I loved "Blood Diamond," until I didn't. This gripping, sophisticated thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly, is an extraordinary achievement in American cinema ...

Leonardo DiCaprio played the lead character, Danny Archer, ... The 2006 film Blood Diamond takes place in Sierra Leone amidst the civil war of 1991-2002. During this time, ...

The news of Solomon's diamond gets around. Danny Archer ... "Blood Diamond's" one downside comes with the time and pacing. At about two hours and 18 minutes, the movie is horribly long.

Having already roiled the diamond industry, "Blood Diamond" arrives with the best of intentions, harrowing sequences but ultimately mixed results. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou deliver ...

Perhaps Blood Diamond is most disappointing because it has the potential to explore events and aspects of the Sierra Leone civil war, but just when the film seems to transcend its own melodrama, there ...