Movie Reviews: "Extraordinary Measures"

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Movie Reviews: Extraordinary Measures

There's little of anything that is extraordinary about Extraordinary Measures, most critics agree.

Offered as the first film by recently launched CBS film, it is hardly anything more than a disease-of-the-week movie that the network used to turn out regularly on Sunday nights (although, in reviewing the movie, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times, remarks that with it, "Life has been reduced to a Lifetime [Channel] movie.")


Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal notes that the movie is based on a nonfiction book by Journal writer Geeta Anand. Extraordinary Measures, he writes, "requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness."


The film does distinguish itself from the TV product by presenting Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser in the leading roles.


Claudia Puig in USA Today says that Ford "yells, sputters and glowers his way through the ultra-ordinary and well-intentioned" movie.

And Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that Fraser, "stiff and visibly uncomfortable as if wearing a suit two sizes too small, is painful to watch."

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