To experience this without watching, put a pot of cold water on the range, turn the heat on low and wait for it to boil. This is a long, dull movie loaded with stereotypes and liberal propaganda. It begins with Ralph, a British government official giving a speech about diplomacy. As he ends, Tessa goes on a long autistic rant about the invasion of Iraq, war for oil, how great the UN is, etc. Rather than being irritated, Ralph/Justin hits on her and ten minutes later they are shagging away. Ten minutes more into the film, they are married. Ten minutes more into the film, she is pregnant doing her liberal white do-gooder visit to a slum in Kenya. After hugging some kids and fawning over a junkie mobile she received as a gift, she goes about her mission.

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. The Constant Gardener is another movie which is simply just boring and probably the best thing about it was actually the flowers but other than that? It wasn't that great actually. (0/10)

This is a very good movie. The story, acting, direction everything were good.Firstly, the story. Its very good. It focuses on a probably not completely fictional drug trial in Africa. Its well written with a lot of character development for the key players with good amount of twists and turns.Secondly, the acting is spectacular. Ralph and Rachel were amazing. The supporting casts were very good. The Oscar Rachel won was deserving. Ralph didn't get the Oscar nomination but he was no less impressive than her.Finally, the directing was superb. The cinematography and editing made the story more intense.All in all, this is a very good movie which I will not forget very soon.

The Constant Gardener has ingredients that we have seen before but director Fernando Meirelles gives it a mix that gives this thriller a refreshing sheen. It is an adaptation of a John Le Carre novel.Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) is a mild mannered British diplomat in Kenya. His wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz) is a social activist/lawyer involved in poverty and ethical issues. She gets involved as an activist in Kenya much to her husband's misgivings and turns up dead.The evidence points to a doctor that Tessa might have been involved with but Justin decides to dig deep and asks difficult questions to the wealthy and powerful in the region and discovers that his wife was compiling data against a multinational drug company using Africans as guinea pigs for drugs with serious side effects.With flashbacks we get a sense of man discovering who his wife really was, a woman he married more on impulse and were polar opposites. Its a subtle performance from Fiennes. Weisz on the other hand gets to give an earnest and a more showy performance which won her a best supporting actress Oscar.Its an ambitious and even cynical film. You kind of get a sense who the bad guys will be and they cared very little about Justin's plight, the man who was obsessed with his garden until he decided to lift his head out of the soil and see his corporate world-view shift.