Master Gardener has lots of thinky thoughts, but it's too wooden to make you feel anything about them. It's competent enough, but I left this movie no richer than I was when I sat down to it. This is a character-driven piece that should have flourished as a study, but none of the characters felt organic or fully-formed. That's a pretty damning failure when all you *have* are character developments, particularly when you've hired some of the best actors in the business. This could have been so much more. It should have been so much more. The cliche goes that you can make a bad movie out of a good script, but never a good movie out of a bad one. I think this script was too poorly-handled to support greatness.
Review of Master Gardener
