Blood Diamond-Review

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BLOOD DIAMOND
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Danny Archer is a former mercenary from Zimbabwe who in 1999 runs guns and smuggles diamonds across the African continent. But he's not one of those mean, horrible, ruthless guys who you love to hate when watching the likes of Casino Royale. He's more of a cute and cuddly, I-just-do-this-as-a-hobby-because-it's-fun criminal.

Maybe that's why he puts up only a small fuss when Maddy, a pretty American journalist, asks him to help her break a big story about how the export and sale of diamonds is fueling Sierra Leone's civil war. He has his selfish motives, too, of course. He's on the trail of a large pink diamond, and tagging along with her gives him cover while traveling through rebel-controlled territory.

The pink diamond was found by Mende fisherman Solomon Vandy after his family was scattered, his hometown burned, and he was forced to labor at a primitive mining operation in Sierra Leone run by the Revolutionary United Front. He hides the jewel in the sand, but word gets out about it. And Danny wants it.

So three people with the most disparate backgrounds and motivations imaginable find themselves thrown together in the midst of a brutal African war. Solomon, Danny and Maddy travel deep into the most dangerous territory in the world, hoping against hope to, respectively, be reunited with family, make a truckload of money and kick-start world peace.