Both excitingly well made and dispiritingly formulaic.

It's a film about exploitation that sometimes feels like it IS exploitation and is only going to leave you frustrated.

Blood Diamond has all the cinematic punch of a lengthy Nation article.

Each of the lead actors does good work here - although Jennifer Connolly's war correspondent must to have an unseen hairdresser traveling with he r- but in regard to the social and political content, Zwick seems to have bitten off more than he could chew.