I thought that as a film about a man driven almost obsessively to find the reasons for his wife's death, this works pretty well. 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. Weisz on the other hand gets to give an earnest and a more showy performance which won her a best supporting actress Oscar. 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. 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. She gets involved as an activist in Kenya much to her husband's misgivings and turns up dead. His wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz) is a social activist/lawyer involved in poverty and ethical issues. Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) is a mild mannered British diplomat in Kenya. It is an adaptation of a John Le Carre novel. 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. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. 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. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered.
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