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The Constant Gardener is a smart, gripping, and suspenseful thriller with rich performances from the leads.
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Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston. Nov 27, 2007 | Full Review…
Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Fiennes and Weisz, who have worked together before in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine, make a glamorous pair. And while this may not have been the effect le Carre was after, it does no lasting damage to his theme. Jan 17, 2006 | Full Review…
Fiennes and Weisz, who have worked together before in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine, make a glamorous pair. And while this may not have been the effect le Carre was after, it does no lasting damage to his theme.
Sandra Hall
... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ... Dec 9, 2005
... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ...
Ken Tucker
There is a terrific pulse of energy in this film, a voltage which drives it over two hours. Dec 6, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There is a terrific pulse of energy in this film, a voltage which drives it over two hours.
Peter Bradshaw
This haunting film will linger with you as a portrait of love lost and found. Oct 25, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This haunting film will linger with you as a portrait of love lost and found.
Andy Jacobs
Fiennes carries Le Carré's spirit with a slow-burning performance that operates on two fronts: As a powerful indictment of third-world abuses by pharmaceutical companies, and as a widower's moving investigation into his shattered relationship. Sep 26, 2005
Fiennes carries Le Carré's spirit with a slow-burning performance that operates on two fronts: As a powerful indictment of third-world abuses by pharmaceutical companies, and as a widower's moving investigation into his shattered relationship.
Scott Tobias
Where the film most improves on the book is in its treatment of the main characters. Fiennes and Weisz portray the relationship between Tessa and Justin as touching and believable, something the book fails to do. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Where the film most improves on the book is in its treatment of the main characters. Fiennes and Weisz portray the relationship between Tessa and Justin as touching and believable, something the book fails to do.
Marcia Angell
The result feels schizophrenic: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Remedy. Jan 24, 2018 | Full Review…
The result feels schizophrenic: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Remedy.
Mark Steyn
An offensively condescending tourist's eye Sep 1, 2009 | Full Review…
An offensively condescending tourist's eye
Fernando F. Croce
A sad, taut, and excellent global mystery. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
A sad, taut, and excellent global mystery.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller. Jul 30, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller.
Rob Gonsalves
Mr. Fiennes, drawing his lips inward and adding just a slight quaver to his voice, gives his finest performance in almost a decade. Jul 14, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Mr. Fiennes, drawing his lips inward and adding just a slight quaver to his voice, gives his finest performance in almost a decade.
Joe Lozito
Meirelles directs this taut political thriller with a remarkable control over the material in his hands and fantastic performances from his cast, and the result is a gripping, suspenseful mystery, an engaging love story and an intelligent statement on an important subject.
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"Taut political thriller" is a label that's used about a hundred times for every one film that earns it; The Constant Gardener is one worthy of the mantle. And not only is it a political story, it's a human one, too. Next to no unnecessary shots in this one, with strong acting and images that will stay with you. A good director takes on a novel by the famous thriller writer John Le Carré and the result is an excellent movie.
By the end of this film I was really pulling my hair out. I just found it so boring and monotonous despite the best efforts of Fiennes and Weisz. It's a heart breaking story of grief and loss, but the running time dispels any tension and makes me want to switch off. Beautiful cinematography, however.
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