Rating of
3/4
Thought provoking!!!
MovieAddict - wrote on 09/22/12
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 he becomes a target.
This controversial plot of corrupt pharmaceutical gigantic companies that test their medicines on poor Kenyan people is very serious and this combined with the beautiful photography of a not so beautiful landscape altogether makes this movie riveting. Well worth the watch.
