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This is a great movie! The director uses all facts in the 2 years of filming for this movie. It will make females cry during some portion, but those portions are crucial for the understanding of the story. The action is filmed greatly!

Even if you don't like Leonardo Di Caprio you will like this, it's one of the best films I've ever seen. It's gripping, relistic (based on a true story, shocking, informative and intresting. It's well acted and has a brilliant storyline. Even thou it has a sad story and a point to make, it dosn't get in the way of making this an enjoyable film.

Loved it! Excellent story and acting. Stunning scenery. Plenty of action and drama. Buy it!

THIS IS A POWERFUL AND GREAT MOVIE LEO IS BY FAR ONE OF MY FAV ACTORS,,, WITH PERFORMANCES LIKE THIS AND IN THE DEPARTED HOW COULD HE NOT BE,, BLOOD DIAMOND IS A MOVIE THAT WAS U DEEP IN THE SEAT VOTEING FOR THE STORY TO KEEP GOING,, IT WAS A GRIPPING MOVIE AND IS WORTH EVERY PENNY YOU SPEND ON IT!

Well-written, Blood Diamond centers on issues rarely heard of in the USA. It follows Danny Archer's quest to find diamonds. In the process, he runs across an African who knows of an exceptionally large diamond, but who like all people has a personal story. Solomon Vandy's is exceptionally sad. He is trying to find his family from whom he has been separated because of a civil war. Vandy will lead Archer to the diamond in return for help finding his family. This story addresses not only the issue of who gets all the money in Africa, but also the horrors of civil war and child soldiers. Please be aware that due to the type of story it is, it contains much strong language.

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Great movie. It has so many funny one-liners! It has some mild language but overall is a family friendly movie. If you like movies like Tommy Boy then this is a must have.

I was disappointed with the visual quality of the movie. It was not what I expected.

It is a family and comedy movie. Well the movie is funny and a good movie to watch with your friends and family. Hope you enjoy it too which I did a lot!!^_^

There is nothing funny about this movie. There were 7 of us, teen and up, who watched half or more of Major Payne and nobody ever laughed because it was just plain stupid and not funny. Nobody wanted to watch it to the end. The story could be a good one but the acting and the way it was portrayed was terrible.

In order to win a war games competition, an insane Army major must convert a group of dysfunctional kids into true american heros. Major Payne is amusing. The story has a lot of potential, and much of it is shown. It is a very good comedy and a good spare-time watcher.

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I dont know what everyone is talking about with race wars or whatever....but i love the movie...one of my favorites!

I CAN WATCH IT REPEATEDLY. IT SHOWED THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING AN EDUCATION. IT SHOWED HOW RACISM AFFECTED THOSE FOLKS IN THAT TIME PERIOD. TYRA BANKS WAS IN THE MOVIE.

Lord almighty how many films is America supposed to be subjugated to the endless race or sex riots from Hollywood? I swear we should figure that opinions on race one way or another is brought up 100x more in our media and movies than in real life. They attempt to portray both history and the present yet each time they including Omar Epps seemed leaching to a fetish of good guy and bad guy culture wars! The true culture wars are in Hollywood and Washington. In real life whites, blacks, women, everybody has their fair share of problems and issues. These movies portray a one sided and two dimensioned part of a world, like college, really is like. College and life is not a world that is sliced up into cliques that define by race or sex. The world is divided between one idea; those that believe they are better than the rest. Behind every group whether it be the KKK or the NAACP pride pulses in their cores. What are we supposed to do with movies like this? And what about the constant stream hypocritical or self riceous material coming from Hollywood? Each one tries to portray what America is like when it's obvious to some of us that they have no clue. Each release seems a lot like their own instructions to us on morality. It's like gimmie a break. They give us sterotypical images of sexually assaulted women, young black males, or socially outcast young white males, the same kind every time. This does truly contradict whatever illusion of good group vs. bad group message they attempt. In this movie every character in one group was good and thoughtful and victimized while another group were dramatic enemies. As wonderful a conflict story this may seem movies like this are made from and made with folks that have never lived or witnessed conflict of this kind ever. A preppy college divided by gender, race, and background. In the world we live colleges are divided by a hundred more things than that! The ironic thing in truth, groups separated by those things are the ones that get along the best with everyone. It's really no different than high school. You have the jocks, the preps, the poor, the rich. Again, what are we supposed to do with this film. In the end there is one majority and one minority. Those who know the truth vs. those who do not.

All this movie is, is a series of stereotypes of various groups of people : school-shooting secretly woussy neonazi, athletic angry black guy, oversensitive feminist hippie chick, wise all-knowing professor. Really the only good part of the movie is the last part. If you filtered out the entire movie down to just the lines from Lawrence Fishburne, you'd have something of value.

Jennifer Connelly plays a lesbian, Kristi Swanson plays a sexually confused college student, Ice Cube & Busta Rhymes play black power militants, Michael Rapaport plays a confused nerdy college student who gets wooed by Nazi Skinheads, Tyra Banks plays a brainy track star (as does Omar Epps without the brainy-ness), the guy from "Dazed & Confused" plays the leader of a gang of Nazi skins that number about 4 members, Laurence Fishburne plays a know-it-all professer...the end.

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I have read almost everything Michael Connelly has written and followed Harry Bosch for years. I got this in paperback and was so, so disappointed. It's not like our old Harry, he is disjointed, confused and going in all the wrong directions. I don't know what is wrong, but I hope Mr. Connelly fixes it, because this is NOT the Harry Bosch we know and love, this one is a stranger. If you have not read it, give this one a pass.

What a stinker! This is a book which one just can't suspend disbelief. When his ex wife love of his life is murdered before his eyes he doesn't even shed a tear.. even when he knows its his fault. I'm a big Connelly fan and a fan of Bosch too. This book looks like it was written to pay the rent or fill a publishing commitment. Concept is OK, but the execution is lame, and unbelievable. Could have been titled "Harry Bosch gets a lobotomy.." Luckily, I read ScareCrow shortly afterwards and I am rehooked on Connely

Great product! Better than described! Fast delivery! Well packed! DO NOT HESITATE to order from this seller!!! You will not be disappointed!!! Thank you for the book!!! A++++

Book arrived much faster than expected, and in excellent condition. Vendor took great pains to protect it.

I'm halfway through the book and I've counted 23 uses of the phrase "got it". Sometimes 'you got it', 'I got it', sometimes just 'got it', several 'you got it Harry'. I think Mr. Connelly used to work harder on the dialog. In this one it seems a bit lazy and slap-dash compared to the other Bosch books.

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I read a book by another author where it was obvious he just discovered flying by private jet. The book seemed to be a vehicle for showing that he knew the life-style and the lingo to the point where it was a throw-away. Connelly does the same thing here with what must be new-found knowledge of data protection environments. Then, he beats it to death. It got very tedious very fast. The entire book was shallow and trite. In fact, the book reads like a plot for a movie for teenagers. Definitely not even close to his prior work.

Michael Connelly is probably my favorite author for crime novels and has been for many years. He stays in that position because unlike many of my other favorite authors, he has overcome "the wall" and brought himself back to close to his old form in his latest novels. While Sanford, Robinson, Crais, Flynn, Grisham, have begun to fade, Connelly proves that he still has it. Putting Team Bosch aside for this novel and bringing out Team McEvoy/Wallings, Connelly shows his depth of field and penchant for attempting something a little different. Having read a total clunker just before The Scarecrow, I was simply blown away by the first 150 pages. Connelly was on his game and it showed. The writing was crisp, the characters were vivid and bringing back Jack McEvoy from The Poet was a terrific idea. Connelly really knows his way around the newsroom and the opening storyline was excellent - Jack gets canned after a high profile career to make way for a young, budding beauty by the name of Angela Cook. I was captivated from the start. From there it settles into a fast paced serial chase and never lets up. Why the 4 star instead of 5 star, then? Well, I can't go into detail without giving up too much of the story, but it will suffice to say that Connelly puts a little too much faith in the coincidence or artistic license - in this reader's opinion. At one point, Connelly even mentions some of the "luck" in order to let the reader know that it might be a little too much. But it's not out of the realm of the possible, so I'll let it slide to some degree. Also, as the chase concludes, there are a couple of open ended issues that I didn't care for. However, that said, this is a terrific book and one that will keep the reader flying through the pages.

Weak, by the numbers follow up to the vastly superior The Poet. Where The Poet had thrills and surprises, The Scarecrow is utterly predictable once you get past the first 100 pages. Where the relationship with the FBI agent worked in The Poet, here it felt as if it were inserted to satisfy a focus group.

I had fairly high hopes after all the glowing media reviews & seeing it make Amazon's Best of 2009. The bad guy is a credible hacker type, and Connelly seems to know his way around techspeak and the vulnerabilities of the Internet, as well as the downward spiral of print news media. Then the Huh? moments start. The two ostensibly intelligent leads start doing incredibly dumb things, despite what they know about the bad guy & his methods, apparently because that's the only way to advance the plot. An FBI agent is kicked out for misuse of government funds, and is magically restored to her prior position in the course of two days. (I work for the Feds, & I can tell you this would never, EVER happen, however big a break on a case an ex-agent unearthed. Some SSA at the Bureau would take all the credit, and leave them high & dry). A functioning 'throwaway' cell phone in an underground bunker, or the middle of the Nevada desert? I don't think so. And so on. If you're not prone to asking questions about why characters do what they do, and aren't bothered if it makes no sense given the prior setup, go for it. But I have to say I just couldn't buy it. Amazon got suckered on this one. Go for 'The Lincoln Lawyer' instead.

Remember the movie from the 90s staring America's sweetheart Sandra Bullock called The Net and the movie called Unlawful Entry where in both movies the villian is a computer genius and freezed all teh heroeses' accounts and credit cards and all that? Well the same thing happens in this book FIFTEEN years later!! This book might be fun for senior citizens who never use a computer and think EMAIl will steal there soul. If you, like the chareacters int his book think "Googling" is some strange and magical event like in Harry Potter, then you will be fascinated by this crap.