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"This is a really good movie, with a solid story (based on Le Carré's book), good acting, suspense, drama, love, action, good music... all you need for a great film! "
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"Ralph Fiennes is a fabulous actor and he gives a tremendous performance. The story is not a bright, shiny happy tale and if that is what you are hoping for, go see a different movie. The story isn't as complex as most John LeCarre stories, but then I suspect that it was simplified for film. I would not be surprised to see Fiennes' performance nominated for an award next spring. "
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Constancy is Relative
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"The Constant Gardener was my Netflix movie of the week, no doubt inspired by the fact that it was an Oscar-winning flick (Rachel Weisz won Best Supporting Actress). I had not watched this movie around the time of its release, but for no particular reason other than I had not cultivated any special interest in seeing it except for the fact that Oscar paid attention to it. I read the plot synopsis, though, and thought it might be an interesting movie.It's based on a novel of the same name that I have not read. In fact, I rarely pick up politlcal thrillers, so it is doubtful that I would have read it anyway. Also, I have never seen any of Fernando Meirelles' previous films, including City of God (contrary to analogzombie's particular assertion, which I read in the review below mine). I had little to no information on what to expect this time around, which I don't mind. I like to expand my horizons as much as possible, and watching a film you have little to no int ... "
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"I was jogging the other day, listening to Filmcouch #97, and the boys on the program asked whether there are any movies being made in the old spy genre anymore. Pure spy movies, as I think they put it. Or are we now left with, through evolutionary Hollywood transmogrification, only action spies (Bourne), humorous spoofy spies (Powers), and a few self-referential takes on the old genre, viz., The Constant Gardener.So for a few blocks I mentally recapitulated the efflorescence of the spy genre in the Sixties, as I remember it. Fleming, who started it all when JFK told an interviewer that he read the Bond books before bed at night, Len Deighton (Michael Caine as Quiller), the Flint movies. Richard Burton in the first La Carre effort.Then I spent a couple of blocks coming up with the following list:Spy Kids (2001, 2002)
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"Here is the new teaser trailer for Blindness, the latest film from Fernando Meirelles (City of God; The Constant Gardener). Normally I wouldn’t be so excited about something that reminds me of Val Kilmer’s post-eye-surgery point-of-view shots from At First Sight, especially when such visuals are accompanied by generic outbreak plots, but I’m so excited about Meirelles’ work that I’d have seen Alvin and the Chipmunks – poop-eating included — if he’d been behind the camera. All this despite the fact that I was extremely disappointed with The Constant Gardener the first time I watched it on account I had such high expectations. Maybe I should calm down my anticipation before Blindness hits theaters this September. Anyway, I know there are some other outbreak films coming out soon, includi "
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Fully Bonded
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"I have to admit, I have been away from the Bond franchise for some time. The last one I saw was 'Goldeneye', and while I thought it was a cut above the previous few entries, I was getting a little tired of the concept, thinking "how long can they keep milking this?" -- Well we had heard that this new Bond Daniel Craig was worth a look, so we ventured out to our local multiplex to check him out around December. Additionally, the 'Encore' channel started running all the old Bonds around the New Year (and if you got the 'on demand' option with your cable service, you could watch all of them at your leisure in widescreen no less!), so around here, we've been thoroughly drenched in Bond for the past few months. This weekend, we were snowed in and watched one of the more recent Pierce Brosnan entries, so with all this is mind, I thought I'd do an overview of the 007 pantheon (at least the ones I've seen, who knows how many times by now).I have to start ... "
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"Most people, like myself, will be interested in this film for one reason only: City of God. The director of that stellar work, returns to familiar visual territory with The Constant Gardener, trading in the gritty slums of Rio for the gritty shanty towns of Kenya. The story, however, is very different from City of God, and that's a good thing. After all who wanted to see City of God 2: The Rewolvening? Not me. The film, based on a best selling novel apparently, is centered around Ralph Fiennes as a British diplomat living in Kenya with his young, idealistic wife, Rachel Weiss. Weiss is one of those young, naive, crusaders who believes that corruption should combated and stamped out. The character is drawn very one-dimensionally at first, but as the film progresses and we learn about her, as her husband does, she becomes much more likable and complex. Still the worn character of college idealist planning to save the world is old hat, and Meirelles tries so hard to drive it home ... "
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‘The Constant Gardener’ (2005)
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"O.k. you pinko, librul ‘Murica-haters and anti-Capitalists — this is your movie. Why? Because screenwriter Jeffrey Caine and Director Fernando Meirelles reveal that the 21st c. is built as much upon the commodification of the 3rd World as it is Oil. All of those ‘miracle drugs’ that you buy over the counter and through expensive prescriptions HAD to have human trials. Yes, those trials are often expensive and setbacks often run the cost of those trials up, but by the tens of millions of dollars. You see, Big Pharma is a lot like the Bush Administration — if they’re running a survey up a proverbial flag-pole and they don’t like the results, they’ll take the thing down, apply weights to it and repeat the process until they get their desired results. So it was with Nigerian Yellowcake, WMDs Vioxx and Paxil. But if you’re testing drugs in the West, companies sometimes become accountable to the test-participants. Just as Western Capi ... "
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"I had great expectations for The Constant Gardener (2005). I really like espionage-type movies, I like John Le Carre novels, critics liked this film, and Rachel Weisz was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (she won). Even the plot sounded good: A British diplomat’s young activist wife is murdered in Kenya, and he comes out of his shell when he continues her work investigating multi-national pharmaceutical companies’ use of Africans for clinical trials. While the movie is worth watching, it has two major weaknesses. First, Le Carre’s novel and Fernando Meirelles’ direction clash. Typically, Le Carre is understated and complex; undercurrents are everything. Typically, Meirelles’ direction is energetic and in-your-face. He has lots of hand-held docume "
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