Blood diamond, excellent, several relationships, anti hero, victim, reporter, love interest, global syndicates, money and idealistic dreams. The catch phrase, T.I.A., This Is Africa. A diamond, insurgents, the horrors of war, and the chase with an ending to satisfy most ardent film goers.
All the ingredients for an evenings entertainment. Leonardo DeCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou, all make strong contributions to the story and the ending underlines both failed and realised dreams and achievemnts.
1990 Sierra leone is the setting and civil war is the reason, a family seperated and almost destroyed, a young son indoctrinated into the RUF, a father and husband desperate to find his family, an anti hero seeking the one last chance to flee Africa, a reporter wordly wise to the infamy of the war zone and seeking the world exclusive, big business seeking to gain control of the Pink Diamond, coloured by the blood of warring nations for control of Sierra Leone.
All in one film, well worth watching.