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To an extent Blood Diamond is a victim of its own length. Despite the fact that the film includes a number of troubling political and sociological understanding, and tepid adventure story loses momentum, as the story bogs down. The main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has an effective arc, which is plausible because it does not compel him to act contrary to their nature, but it takes a long time for Blood Diamond, to get us to DiCaprio at the time of recognition. Pacing issues aside, the film is well constructed - clearly a product director who understands how to make top-picture slots. He looks good and sounds good. If only Edward Zwick in the development of a medium-term has been extended to trim to the script and editing the final result, Blood Diamond may have been great movie, and not only worthy of a warm recommendation.

The story takes place in 1999 in Sierra Leone, where a country engulfed by civil war. In this fight, it is difficult to determine which side is worse: government or the rebels. As often happens in such bloodshed, a lot of cruelty, and that innocent farmers and villagers caught between them, who pay the price. Diamonds, one of the largest countries export raw materials, are now smuggled, and buy on the open market, despite the alleged international ban on the purchase of so-called “conflict diamonds” or “blood diamonds”. This historical background (which is more complex, as in the movie) is accurate, although the three main characters embroiled in a fictional events.

Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is a loving husband and father, who live a peaceful life on a farm in one of the most read community in Sierra Leone. He sends his young son, Dia (Kuypers Caruso), at the school to learn English, that the boy will grow up to a better life. One day, terror came to Solomon in the village when the rebels arrive and kill or capture virtually every living there. Solomon’s family cut from it, and he goes to work diamond mining. Although the analysis based on a shallow sand from the river bottom, he opens the 100-karat pink diamond, which he initially hides then buries. Shortly after that, he captured during the raid, government and sent to prison. While there, he faces South African “soldiers of fortune” Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), who makes a deal with the Solomon: The diamond, it will help a person to find his wife and children. To achieve this goal, Archer goes for help to American journalist Maddy Brown (Jennifer Connelly), whose price is to help tell-all expose of the Archer on how “dirty” to appear clean laundered diamonds on the world market, and how much guilt London diamond Merchants have.

This is a gross simplification of what happens during Blood Diamond in the first 45 minutes. This is narratively dense picture that requires constant attention from the audience. As an action / adventure tale, the film has its high moments, but there are times when the movie feels like it its rotation of the wheels. Director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai “) is not alien epic films, but none of his previous features have felt as long as this one.

The film is uncompromising in the way in which he describes the conflict in Sierra Leone (which is fundamentally similar to the many wars that have recently dotted the African continent). We see the mass killings of innocent as the government and rebels mow down men, women and children indiscriminately. We see how the insurgents to recruit young boys, indoctrinate them using torture and drugs, and turn them into hardened killers. Patriotism is equated with a high body Cola. There is concern over the form of ten-year-old boy fired an automatic rifle into a crowd of unarmed people panicked. Blood Diamond is as effective in depicting the corruption of innocent people, as he showed in harrowing hell of this kind of war. It also highlights the greed and manipulation that characterizes the international diamond market.

Two of the three characters are well developed. Archer has the most complete arc. Fortunately, he never loses his “I first” approach, but we came to an understanding of how it has developed, and we see a gradual softening of some of its morality. This solid material Leonardo DiCaprio, who grew up in this as a “gritty” role and was more believable when the dances seen at the dark side of The Departed. This is not the same actor who set the hearts of young women anxiously decade ago. He found a measure of gravitas.

Unlike Archer, Solomon did not arch. He’s single-minded in its focus: to find his wife, two daughters and a son. His passion drives the film forward when Blood Diamond is the urgency, it’s because of him. Djimon Hounsou is volcanic in that role. Less is part of the main Maddy Brown, who in less than half of the film (she is absent from the final third). Jennifer Connelly whether it is best able to clich and part of an idealistic journalist, but writing does not exist, and Maddy, in the end, largely forgettable - a symbol necessitated by the site, rather than to life, breathing person. At least, there is a hint at the spark between Connelly and DiCaprio, which keeps things interesting when they are together.

Blood Diamond is a mixed bag - a film that has its share of harsh, unforgettable moments, but whose substance never fully gels. Despite the participation of two marquee players and the number topping director resume, it is hard to imagine there is much of the audience for the film raises, rather, a policy of African atrocities than adrenaline and testosterone cocktail, which is usually characterized by such a film. The film length works against it, but there’s enough here to justify the recommendation, even if it was not the most active of which I ever question Zwick production.

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