3.0
out of 100
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Hardly an extraordinary movie. In fact, it's hard to believe that this schmaltzy film found its home on the big screen rather than the Hallmark Channel. But I dare you not to feel something at its conclusion.
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The storytelling and the visual style are rarely more than workmanlike, and the big scenes arrive punctually and are played with minimal nuance.
Harrison Ford has obviously enrolled in the Al Pacino School of Old Man Acting. He yells, sputters and glowers his way through the ultra-ordinary and well-intentioned Extraordinary Measures.
The story is poignant and compelling, but ultimately the film doesn't have the heft it needs to fill out the big screen.
Doesn't reach far beyond its smallscreen genotype as a disease-of-the-week telepic, despite the star power of Brendan Fraser as the desperate dad and Harrison Ford as an eccentric, ornery researcher.
An ordinary film with ordinary characters in a story too big for it. Life has been reduced to a Lifetime movie.
It never rises above formula fare.
Extraordinary Measures requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness.
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Moving topic, mediocre melodrama.
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