Last Samurai director Edward Zwick has created yet another adventure story but this time using a more modern conflict and raising some searching questions about the role of the modern consumer and big businesses in suffering and conflict taking place in the third world. Leonardo Di Caprio has been nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Danny Archer, a ruthless diamond smuggler out to chase the biggest treasure in the trade - a 100-carat pink diamond - and make his millions. It all begins for him when he is in Sierra Leone and runs into Solomon Vandy, played by Djimon Hounsou, who has the misfortune of finding this rare diamond while working in a rebel held mine. You may remember Djimon Hounsou from the Oscar winning film Gladiator…

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