Good intentions aren’t enough. Writer Charles Leavitt and director Edward Zwick try to deliver an exciting thriller and teach us something important about the diamond industry’s horrible toll on African lives. But Blood Diamond is too predictable, too ineptly written, and too preachy to work as a thriller, and a bad thriller doesn’t make for good education (unless, of course, the lesson is How Not to Make a Thriller). I did learn one important lesson from Blood Diamond: Jennifer Connelly is capable of giving a bad performance–all she needs is lame dialog and an unbelievable character.
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