The Constant Gardener
Merck sold a drug it knew to be dangerous and deadly.
Perhaps it is best this message and agenda are lost by way of the struggle between these two storytellers. After all, who really wants to deal with reality when a love story about the examination of the mystery of the heart is far more appealing and easy to accept.
There are redeeming moments to "The Constant Gardener". The performance by Ralph Fiennes goes to demonstrate, again, an apparent truth about him: He seems incapable of a bad effort as an actor. The same can be and should be said of Rachel Weisz. As Justin works his way through the debris once his wife's life he comes to see life is not as neat and tidy as he thought or even hoped: Arnold was not his wife's driver, but a doctor who worked alongside her to find answers to questions seemingly without answers. And what was the work that got her killed? I will not say.
"The Constant Gardener" has a good story to it. Unfortunately too many problems burden it and what should have made for one of the year's best films instead makes for a pop culture condemnation of international politics.
Regardless, it will find a measure of success, both at the box office and with the audience.
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