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Rating of
3.5/4
The Constant Gardener
KingInTheNorth - wrote on 07/18/2013
After the wife of a English diplomat dies under mysterious circumstances he starts to investigate and by himself become haunted.
This movie has so much reality in it. Cruel reality. The plot is just so great. Drama, thriller, action and crime all packed into one movie. I really, really loved the book by John LeCarré. It is one of my favorites. The acting in the movie is perfect Ralph Fiennes is on top of his game and Rachel Weiszz giver her best performance ever. Oscar was deserved. The only problem of this movie was Fernando Meirelles. Some call him the best director of all time, some call him an amateur. For me it is just headache. Ten different angles in twenty seconds. Then shake here, shake there. Ahh, I had to watch it in two goes. The movie is brilliant and totally suspense but …
Rating of
3/4
Thought provoking!!!
MovieAddict - wrote on 09/22/2012
Ralph Fiennes plays a reserved British diplomat Justin whose wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) is an activist working in an African community. She becomes aware that a drug company is testing an experimental drug on the population there and that people are dying because of it. Then she is found murdered near Lake Turkana but who did it???
Justin is haunted by the suspicion that his wife had been unfaithful in the months preceding her death. He knows that she had been working with local AIDS activists in Kenya, but after her death he decides to look into the matter a bit more carefully, deciding against leaving the matter in the hands of the British High Commission, for which he works. He soon begins to realize that she was on to a big conspiracy so he starts to investigate himself, but then …
Rating of
3.5/4
Can actually only one person make a difference?
kustaa - wrote on 11/12/2007
Just as Gavin Hood, Fernando makes he's first movie after winning the Oscar. I found this one a bit better than Rendition, wich, it's very similar. Hood goes against the US, and you find in this one a little, but still solid kick to british outside policy.
I loved this movie (although, is not by any chance as good as City of God) because it's complete. You have the not politically issue, treated until the end, and it somehow works the ending better than Rendition. I keep comparing the movies because, althought the treat 2 different subjects, are very similar in spirit. The director has a wonderful eye for putting the camera in the right place, and also a fantastic use of colors. I'd had need a bit more of strong acting, but, overall, it was everything fantastic.
