Blood Diamond

If you enjoyed Hotel Rwanda from 2004, Blood Diamond is for you. It is horrific in the bloodshed and civil unrest but the individual performances pull it through. I do not consider myself a Leonardo DiCaprio fan but Leo has outdone himself. I hoped for a lead actor nomination but the so-called "experts" were saying he would be nominated for The Departed. I haven't seen that yet but I was extremely glad that the Academy recognized Leo for Blood Dimaond. Jennifer Connelly was also quite good and Djimon Hounsou was simply amazing. I felt like he was a real person and not just an actor portraying a troubled character. I actually walked out of the movie theater feeling bad for owning a diamond in the same way that I walked out of Schindler's List feeling bad that I was german. Thumbs up--I recommend it.