Based on JOHN Le CARRE'S book, this film adaptation could have been much better. Often fragmented, annoyingly pleased with itself. I haven't heard the phrase Artsy-Fartsy in a long time, however that pretty much sums it up. By now fairly familiar story has FIENNES investigating his young wife's murder finding conspiracy much deeper than he could have imagined. WEISZ as the wife, seen in flashbacks alternates between beguiling, sweet ingénue and shrill histrionic out to save the world from conspiracy plots all around. Her voice gets to be like fingernails on the blackboard after awhile. WEISZ comes across like an intellectual LIZ HURLEY.
Review of The Constant Gardener
