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Extreme Measures

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Michael Apted

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Plot Summary

Golden Globe-winner Hugh Grant ("Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," "Love Actually") is a promising emergency room doctor whose investigation into bizarre medical experimentation on the homeless may threaten his career -- and his life! Co-starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Gene Hackman ("Runaway Jury," "Behind Enemy Lines"), Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Sarah Jessica Parker ("The Family Stone," TV's "Sex and the City"), and David Morse ("Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story," "Hearts in Atlantis"). From acclaimed director Michael Apted ("Enough," "The World Is Not Enough").

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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55%
  • Reviews Counted: 33
  • Fresh: 18
  • Rotten: 15
  • Average Rating: 6.0/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Rotten: Is it excusable to kill a few indigents here and there experimenting for a miracle cure? Measures' painfully protracted Hour 2 turns into a melodramatic debate about ethics. – Mike Clark, USA Today, Jun 24, 2010

Fresh: It's a fish out of water story in which neither the fish nor anybody else seems aware of his 'out of water' status. – Charlie Lyne, Ultra Culture, Oct 31, 2011

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Good Michael Crichton-style story

Nor a great movie, but a good and underrated one. It's a pretty suspenseful and sometimes creepy medical thriller with a Chrichton-ish plot about medical experimentation gone very wrong, but for the right reasons (which is still timely). Meanwhile it operates well as a straight-up mystery with a classic narrative, as the harried hero doggedly collects clues and pieces the puzzle together. Of course Hackman and the ubiquitous David Morse are solid as always, but it's up to Grant to carry it and he is surprisingly good in this serious role. SJP on the other hand is drab and zombielike in hers. It's too long and talky -- a good 15 minutes could easily be lost. There are a few minor but glaring goofs in the plot, a continuity problem or two, and the ending is weaker than it should have been. Still, it kept me watching and, for a long while, wondering, and a couple of the plot twists along the way are zingers.

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