The read
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 83% of the 3,273 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes64%
Metacritic64/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
8,563 audience votes
Key crew
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Charles LeavittScreenplay
- Edward ZwickDirector
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioDanny Archer
- Djimon HounsouSolomon Vandy
- Jennifer ConnellyMaddy Bowen
- Kagiso KuypersDia Vandy
- Arnold VoslooColonel Coetzee
- Antony ColemanCordell Brown
- Benu MabhenaJassie Vandy
- Anointing LukolaN'Yanda Vandy
- David HarewoodCaptain Poison
- Basil WallaceBenjamin Kapanay
- Jimi MistryNabil
- Michael SheenSimmons
Stills
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Themes
bootleggerjournalistsmuggling (contraband)loss of loved oneafricarwandan genociderebeljournalismslaveryfishermanmercenarydiamond mine
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