Blood Diamond (2006)

Blood Diamond rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 625K votes

Rotten Tomatoes64%

Metacritic64%

TMDb7.559/10· 8K votes

With 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 64/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Blood Diamond

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.

Cast of Blood Diamond

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  as Danny Archer

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  Djimon Hounsou

  as Solomon Vandy

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  Jennifer Connelly

  as Maddy Bowen

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  Kagiso Kuypers

  as Dia Vandy

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  Arnold Vosloo

  as Colonel Coetzee

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  Antony Coleman

  as Cordell Brown

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  Benu Mabhena

  as Jassie Vandy

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  Anointing Lukola

  as N'Yanda Vandy

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  David Harewood

  as Captain Poison

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  Basil Wallace

  as Benjamin Kapanay

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  Jimi Mistry

  as Nabil

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  Michael Sheen

  as Simmons

Blood Diamond facts

Budget

$100M

Box office

$171.7M

Our take on Blood Diamond

Edward Zwick's 2006 thriller sets its story against the civil war tearing through 1999 Sierra Leone, binding a hardened mercenary-turned-smuggler to a fisherman desperate to recover both a fortune-making pink diamond and his son, conscripted as a child soldier. It's a propulsive, morally charged adventure that uses its treasure-hunt engine to confront the human cost of conflict minerals, keeping the action pointed rather than escapist. The pacing is relentless and the backdrop unflinching about violence and complicity. It suits viewers who want a gripping thriller with a conscience, comfortable with harsh subject matter in service of a genuine argument. Come for the chase, leave thinking about where the sparkle comes from.