The Constant Gardener

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Tibor F Half hour into the film, nothing happens. Extremely boring. Skipped without hesitation. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Anthony W This is a super, harrowing bit of cinema. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/05/24 Full Review Alec C Love can push us to take extremes in order to bring her peace, especially if it means going against the system! A diplomat suspects that his wife's suspicious death is tied to a drug-manufacturing company in Kenya and begins a risky investigation into her demise. Shot with emotional feeling and a sobering sense of doom, we're shown that if you must confront corruption, you should do it for the people you love! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/12/24 Full Review David W The Constant Gardener features excellent performances but suffers from a screenplay that seems to be always building up to a climax that never quite comes. I would only watch this again if there were nothing better to choose from. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/24 Full Review Jona I Enthralling mystery, even mystery of the heart. Weisz and Fiennes are charming together Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/23 Full Review Shaun E The Constant Gardener is a very deep, dark and thought provoking film about abuse of African peoples in the name of money. On top of that, it is a very powerful love story that transcends anything that could remotely be described as romance. Indeed, such a label would cheapen it. The film starts oddly enough. The cinematography appears to be more art than story and it feels somewhat jarring. However, once the story gets going, the cinematic depictions of African life feel real. The chronological to-ing and fro-ing in the early part of the story does not appear to add any benefit to the telling of the story and I cannot help but wonder if the story would have had an even greater emotional impact if the love story had chance to develop before Tessa's death. Where the power of the love story comes into real force is the fact that the love story truly takes on a power of its own as it develops after her death. The story does suffer from convenient plot devices that move it forward and sometimes these feel a bit contrived. However, the story being told is so strong that I can only knock half a star off for this. All in all, a very good film. That it was inspired by a true story makes it all the more powerful. How much of this sort of abuse continues to be perpetrated in the name of money? Highly recommended, but not light, storytelling. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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