High-quality crime drama Blood Diamonds is a very good work from the master of the genre director Fernando Di Leo. He also wrote the script for this film. This picture turned out to be very interesting, spectacular and dynamic.
The plot of the picture is famously twisted. After an unsuccessful robbery, professional robber Guido Mauri performed by Claudio Cassinelli is released and soon he is ambushed with a sad outcome, his wife dies in it. Traces of this crime lead to the head of the Rizzo criminal group, played by Martin Balsam. Guido declares war on him, especially since he has evidence that Rizzo had a hand in his time in prison.
Fernando Di Leo is a master of sharp paintings, created a rather dynamic film that keeps the viewer in suspense until the end. In the picture, as befits such a genre, there are robberies, shootouts, unexpected moves and quite a lot of murders, but with a little blood. The murders in the film are brutal and natural. The hero of Cassinelli dealt with criminals quickly and unceremoniously, not sparing for most of them. Gradually approaching the leader of the criminals. All this spectacle is seasoned with a small amount of light eroticism, most of which we see in the performance of the most beautiful and beloved actress Barbara Boucher.
Operator Roberto Gerardi did a very competent work with the great composer Luis Enriquez Bakalov, who once again pleasantly surprised me with his soundtrack. Music in the film from slow melodic with a little sadness to very fast, which gives scenes where there are shootings and chases even more dynamism and sharpness. Luis Bakalov once again proved his high professionalism.
The cast involved in the film is great. Claudio Cassinelli, Martin Bolsam, Olga Carlos, Pierre Paolo Capponi, Barbara Boucher. All these people forged the cinema that we — today’s movie fans call the classics of Italian cinema. All of the above actors played very psychologically calibrated roles for themselves. The characters of each hero are fully revealed. Separately, I want to note the game of C. Cassinelli. This is an actor who I like very much with his acting, in all the films with him I have seen he always succeeds in brilliant roles. With such actors and with such excellent directing, the atmosphere in the film is matchless!
Bottom line:
Blood Diamonds is another great directorial work by Fernando Di Leo with amazing actors and a great soundtrack. The film will appeal to fans of European criminal dramas of the past. Recommendations.
7 out of 10