Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Python Hyena Extreme Measures (1996): Dir: Michael Apted / Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Debra Monk: Provocative thriller regarding decisions and consequences. Hugh Grant plays a surgeon who ends up in the underground homeless where people are being tested for medical purposes. Eventually he is framed for a crime he didn't commit. Intriguing plot that is quite graphic but its conclusion asks questions regarding preserving life. Tense directing by Michael Apted who often addresses the human condition and motives. He previously directed Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist, and this ranks as one of his greats. Grant plays off confusion and anguish in his search for answers and reasoning. Eventually he is put in position where results are a must since his career and reputation are on the line. This is a very different role from his usual romantic comedy roles, and he is backed by good supporting players. Gene Hackman steals every scene he is in as this genius surgeon with costly theories. Sarah Jessica Parker appears in a wheelchair. She is paralyzed from the waist down and looked to Hackman for a cure. Smaller roles are flat including David Morse as an F.B.I. Agent. While the film has plenty of suspense, it is the idea of using people as risks to find a cure that elevate it above standard conventions. Theme ponders whether a cure is worth the sacrifice. Score: 9 ½ / 10

tbills2 Extreme Measures is a good, good mystery unraveling thriller. It's a bit bland is all. It's well worth watching, just a tad boring in smaller parts. Extreme Measures is a movie I quite enjoy. Hugh Grant is especially agreeable as Extreme Measure's dominating lead. It's nice seeing Mickey Blue Eyes acting in a quality something outside of his typical romantic-comedies, in fact, I so very well liked Hugh's job in Extreme Measures that I would strongly preference that he do more stout dramas. Dr. Guy Luthan was a great role for Grant, as I hope to see him starring in many more of the same roles in the future, oh wait, it is the future, and he didn't. Sarah Jessica Parker is so wonderful. I love seeing Carrie Bradshaw doing her strong female parts for a change-up, finding them even more appealing than her usually played damsel in delight. SJP is one super hot lady. Gene Hackman is great as Dr. Lawrence Myrick. Lex Luthor lays down a formidable villainous representation in Extreme Measures. Extreme Measures is good, I'm telling ya and I damn near rate it a 7, but it needed more added context to its good, intuitive story. Extreme Measures is a well made multifaceted movie.

Chase_Witherspoon Watchable but ultimately tripe with mis-cast Brit Hugh Grant playing a pre-eminent ER doctor who happens upon an apparent conspiracy when he treats a homeless man whose fatal symptoms are unlike any ever documented. His life is subsequently thrown into disarray as he's framed, fired and facing the prospect of ruin, decides to seek out those responsible and uncover their motives.Strong cast includes Hackman as the eminent professor somehow linked to the mysterious death, David Morse as a shady FBI agent and JK Simmons as a doctor mentored by Hackman. Parker and Grant are out of their depth, and both badly miscast, perhaps courtesy of Liz Hurley's influence as producer. The dialogue is abominable and no matter how hard he might try to convince you he's a fully fledged doctor on the edge, Hugh's anxious f-bombs all miss their target.It's technically well made, features some moments of genuine tension, but is so clichéd and contrived that the ethical dilemma proposed by the plot just can't withstand the patent idiocy of the execution. Interesting idea, just lacks the depth, refinement and core casting needed to make it vaguely plausible.

Rachel Alice Hunter Hugh Grant stars a ER doctor that happens upon a patient with complex medical issues (and dies). His tests reveal something quite unusual.Gene Hackman plays a well-respected medical researcher that has a secret research lab using the homeless to find cures to diseases. Thought provoking to say the least.Grant's character is ruined after he starts digging into the mystery of this dead patient's maladies, medical mysteries. He just doesn't know what sinister medical research he stumbled upon and who is involved.Sarah Jessica Parker was okay in the film but Grant made it work. Liz Hurley was actually a Producer of the film. Hackman played his character okay but not excellent as usual.It is a taught medical thriller than will make you think if medical research like the Nazi's is really going on in real life. The movie was ahead of its time.Micheal Apted directed it well. Lots of great supporting actors.