Surprisingly gripping movie about Sierra Leone fisherman Solomon who tries to keep his family alive and together during a brutal civil war. Having just escaped from forced labour in a diamond mine operated by the vicious rebel army he finds that his whole village has been displaced and his young son become a child soldier. His only chance is to strike a deal with diamond smuggler Leonardo DiCaprio, who shows much interest in the huge diamond that Solomon is said to have found and hidden, and who in turn has to cooperate with an American journalist wanting to expose the European and South African companies that are buying the blood diamonds.

8 points