Summary
With the powerfully acted, vividly shot "Blood Diamond," director Edward Zwick takes an unflinching look at the brutality of the African diamond trade.
But there's so much dense, political and social drama going on here, amid such glorious and bleak scenery (the lush work of cinematographer Eduardo Serra), that Zwick ("Glory," "The Last Samurai") probably could have made a couple different movies out of it.See the full content of this document
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Diamond in the Rough
"Blood Diamond" runs too long and the script from Charles Leavitt ("K-PAX") tends to get a bit preachy and didactic. But similar to other recent films set in Africa...
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