Extreme Measures

I thought this was a well done movie, kept me on the edge of my seat, and kept me wondering what was going on.

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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