2006 · thriller · drama · war
Blood Diamond
Directed by Edward Zwick2h 23m2006
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. 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 countrywide.
Our read: Blood Diamond (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- extreme
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