Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Thanks for the memories!

Simply A Masterpiece

One of my all time favorites.

A bit annoyingly white washy but the story actually made a lot of sense. It holds together well. Because something similar actually happened in the USA, on the natives, which is the object of another film I've seen. The film get its stride after they catch up with the start event. It continues until the end. Good cinema not too Hollywoodian. Very credible story that John Le Carré cooked up is less outrageous than the truth, according to him, and I believe it.

Film Review: "The Constant Gardener" (2005)Coming from his international smashing critical acclaim for "City of God" (2002), Director Fernando Meirelles and his cinematographer of trust Cesár Charlone turn to the royal discipline of novel adaptation with a script to "The Constant Gardener" written by Jeffrey Caine based on a novel by John Le Carré about a young couple from England moving to Kenya, Africa to expose a Global Player pharmaceutical company on testing pre-approved drugs on the inhabited population.The film's theme could not be more political inconvenient then exposing major incorporations going over corpses to make a profit. Director Fernando Meirelles stays in the realm of hand-held on-location coverage by throwing his two leading actors, portrayed by a timid to thoughtful Ralph Fiennes & forceful to speaking up loud Rachel Weisz as Justin & Tessa Quayle, in a township near Nairobi, where the character of Tessa catches fire to uncover the truth on business practices of the fictitious company "Three Bees", representing the opposite of activism in pitch-perfect driven plot to a balanced conclusion, which nevertheless misses a final thrill of change as "Blood Diamond" (2006) directed by Edward Zwick were able to provide with main character of Danny Archer, given face by Leonardo DiCaprio, fighting to the last breath.Director Fernando Mereilles shifts gears with Cinematographer Cesár Charlone to SteadiCam and Dolly Shots, when it comes to the London Sequence halfway through "The Constant Gardener", arguably the most satisfying scene of the film, where the character of Sir Bernard Pellegrin, performed by always understating actor Bill Nighy, commenting on the cocked fish tastes better then the grilled fish, playing down an open letter on Company practices to the Government, sending the character of Justin Quayle on a further odyssey, who desperately continues the work of his deceased wife, who wanted to change the world as men before her against all odds for personal satisfaction of a selfless act of courage of speaking up against injustice and exploitations, to no further inquires, leaving behind a blackmailed former friend of Justin's, portrayed by Danny Huston in the character of Sandy Woodrow, who reveals Tessa Quayle as the woman, who used another malpractice as the Global Player Corporation to shape the truth with offering sexual intercourse her husband best friend to receive the mind-blowing letter of revelation on a corrupted world view in an afterwards tension losing picture of not letting the characters collide on the fact of betrayal.What worked so astoundingly with "City of God" (2002) with wild chicken chase through urban landscape to an ultimate confrontation of beliefs, gets driving to an nowhere road of an again insufficient shot list with at times fully indecisive coverage that even veteran editor Claire Simpson could save "The Constant Gardener" from aging to an Cinema denying motion picture, yet still standing as a Political Thriller with fine acting and a voice screaming "Who cares?" after 12 years of believing to be the best – down from 10 out of 10 to 7 /10.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

These days we often read of "raids" by some radical outlaw group on third-world settlements. The image we have must be abstract for most of us because we've never been through one or seen one on video. The most shocking scene in this film describes such a raid. It results in hasty flight, kidnapping, and death. It's terrifying.Ralph Fiennes is a minor diplomat whose wife, Rachel Weisz, disappears while doing some humanitarian work in Africa.The plot involves a corrupt pharmaceutical company, friends that can't be trusted, beatings by strangers, and ultimately murder -- not counting the murders of the African patients who died as a result of ineffective medicines. Weisz mostly appears in overlighted flashbacks, a beautiful woman with a splendid broad nose.Fiennes unravels the mystery, to his own disadvantage, but it's a complicated business with many characters, helpful and deceitful, worthy of John Le Carré.Fiennes is good, it seems, no matter what his role. He was a government contractor in "The Hurt Locker" and looked dangerous. Here, he's earnest, determined, and in the end resigned.Aside from the usual, lamentable habit of shaking the camera and editing the film into tiny bits, the director does a good job of capturing Kenya in all its third-worldliness. The litter-strewn streets of the towns; the bleak desolation of its outback. The photography is in high contrast and drained of some color, more in some scenes than others. No slow motion, thank God.The flashbacks to Fiennes and Weisz together are overexposed and the effect is that of walking out of a dark theater into blazing sunlight. When we're not in Africa, we're in one of London's impeccably appointed private clubs with lunches and ridiculous rules.Nice job overall.

This honestly was a terrible movie I'm a big movie guy so I go to Salvation Army or Goodwill and buy movies buy the box load n what I like I keep and what I don't I return and this is definitely going back. It starts off with a teacher dating (n later marrying) one of his students and she's like a real big "left wing" liberal "save the people" type and they end up in Africa and she dies, but the story goes like backwards from before she dies and the whole time she's with this black African that I never could tell if she was "with", while she's married. I couldn't even sit and watch the whole movie the plot was Absolutely terrible, I shut it off half way through the only thing I give it is it's got the visual and audio techniques of a big budget film, but as far as the story goes; terrible. The cover of the DVD box way exaggerated the film. Save yourself the time.