Reviews by Al

Leo acquired a white South African accent for this movie.  It’s just so sexy.  Unclear to me why, but it just works for me.  The movie is at times obviously written from the white man’s point of view as almost all movies are.  The reactions of the actors to the extreme violence of the situation is a bit too understated.  Perhaps everyone in that region is inured to the violence and the way blacks attack other blacks in the movie.  Meanwhile the white interlopers go nearly untouched and actually massacre a huge number of blacks — rebels, but nevertheless — in the process of going after the big pink diamond.

Hounsou, DiCaprio and Connelly are pretty good here.  The story is passable, though I found the ending a bit nonsensical.