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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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70Like "The Blind Side," this is an inspiring and compelling true story. Harrison Ford is at the top of his game in this remarkable film.
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70Fraser and Ford are both actors of limited range who can be extremely appealing in the right role, and here, they're both ideally cast.
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67It's a refreshingly human-scale saga.
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63The screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs affirms life and jerks tears with welcome degrees of humor and muscle.
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63It's a nice, feel-good story with an appealing cast and strong production values.
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60The overall feel is one of a generic, feel-good drama, albeit one with Harrison Ford stomping around most of the time as if someone kicked him in the shins. One suspects that this is a story that deserved better.
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60Extraordinary Measures has a soppy piano-and-strings score, but the primal fear of loss sharpens every scene.
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60The storytelling and the visual style are rarely more than workmanlike, and the big scenes arrive punctually and are played with minimal nuance.
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58There's something off-putting about this film's optimism: After all, how many people can afford to do what Crowley did?
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It never rises above formula fare.
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50An ordinary film with ordinary characters in a story too big for it. Life has been reduced to a Lifetime movie.
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50The results feel a little harried, as if the focus issues were never really solved.
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50Basically "Lorenzo's Oil" without the earlier film's visual flair.
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50For this dynamic to work, the actors need to be of complementary temperament and equal power. This is not the case.
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At times, the script gets too dense with technicalities and boardroom arguments for lay folk to comprehend. But at its best, it humanizes the plight of families who cope day-to-day with disabling illness
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50Harrison 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.
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50For real sparks keep a look out for Jared Harris in a supporting role that injects a mildly diverting note of corporate intrigue into an otherwise unsurprising procedural.
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50The most intriguing aspects of Extraordinary Measures relate to the behind-the-scenes politicking that goes on to keep the drug development on track, although the screenplay cheats toward the end (presumably because of time constraints and a concern that too much detail might bore audiences).
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50Best when Fraser is on screen. Ian McKellen, who starred with Fraser in "Gods and Monsters," called him the most natural actor he'd worked with, marvelling at Fraser's ability to disappear into roles.
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50Extraordinary Measures isn't extraordinary. It's simply safe.
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50There's nothing cinematic about this turgid tearjerker except the slumming presence of movie star Harrison Ford.
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50Isn't emotionally manipulative but simply dull.
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Fraser is open and appealing, and Ford, his acting mostly isolated in the right corner of his mouth, does well enough with a secondary part.
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50The story is poignant and compelling, but ultimately the film doesn't have the heft it needs to fill out the big screen.
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50Doesn'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.
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50Sometimes feels like one of those "disease of the week" TV movies from the 1970s.
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50The film closely follows the pattern of 1992's "Lorenzo's Oil," but with fewer filmmaking risks, visceral emotions, and colorful, outsized characters.
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40Most of the movie unfolds in such a dull manner.
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40Sadly, "Get out of my lab!" is not the new "Get off my plane!"
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25Everything about this excruciatingly dull, talky film screams made-for-network-TV: The I'm-only-here-for-a-paycheck performances by famous actors; the Crate and Barrel catalog mise-en-scene; the syrupy, heartwarming score that lays the pathos on so thickly you gag on it.
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20Looks and tastes an awful lot like a TV movie of the week.
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20Extraordinary Measures requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness.
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JacksonC.5Good, but not as good as i thought it would be. at times, it was slow.