One of the worst experience of watching films in recent years was when I sat down and endured the sickly shot and vastly over-rated movie The Constant Gardner.

I could understand the important message of the film, I thought it was decently acted but I couldn’t help but feel director Fernando Meirelles was being a little self-indulgent with his film-making in his Hollywood debut.

So frantic. So desperate to go to the next scene or shake the camera because it will add some tension. I hate to say this but the film felt like it was fraud, I dunno I just couldn’t buy into it at all and it made me feel a little sick. I struggled through it like a visit to the dentist.

So brings us to the director’s next movie Blindness about a sudden epidemic where the people randomly in a certain town are starting to turn blind.

Ultra-boring thriller actress Julianne Moore (I think she sucks in this genre anyway), Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover and Alice Braga make-up the cast.

Looks sickly as ever. I don’t know why but there is something about the way this guy makes movies that I really don’t like. I’m getting a Children of Mine vibe with this flick but it doesn’t look half as interesting to me…

Look for this one in October - you could always pass the time before then by reading the Jose Saramengo novel upon which the film is based.

source - coming soon