The problem is not just bad film making but a bad story. It might have been a better story or a least felt fresher if it had been made in the early seventies where conspiracies of big business were just starting to take off in the public mind. At the current times the who story seems a bit of a, "so what". Corporation and government can't be trusted, so what. Are we really supposed to believe that a person schooled enough to become a British diplomat would be so naive as to the main character? The film apart from the bad story is just plain slow. It had all the pacing of a Melville novel. I'm no fan of Rambo action crap, but if I had a choice between watching this slow movie or watching an action version I would clearly chose the action. This one actually has you wanting someone to die or get murdered just to hurry the film up a bit. I had no idea watching it that it was made by the director of City of God. If I had know that, I would have been even more disappointed.
Review of The Constant Gardener
