everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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

Two mans escape barely naked from an institute. One of them reaches at a hospital where Dr. Guy Luthan works who is a very good medic and has extreme care of his patients. Unfortunately he can not save the stranger who arrives at him but he has a doubt on the way he dies so now he starts to look for some clues that might bring him the truth and why that man was is such a worse condition.Hugh Grant plays the role very good although Gene Hackman doesn't appear for a very long time in the movie only at the end. This movie leaves us with a question on our minds. Is it good too kill some one in order to save other lives? Dr. Lawrence Myrick has a clinic where he brings homeless peoples or the kind that nobody will miss their absence and carry out on them experiments in witch he can find the cure to paralysis.A rough movie and I think it's one of the best on this topic from the '90 and with two great actors that give a dose of reality witch makes it even more real.

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.

I am a big fan of House because of the weekly dilemmas posed. Should we sacrifice a few for the benefit of the many is a question posed in this thriller with J.K. Simmons, Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, and Sarah Jessica Parker.Grant, as a doctor who uncovers some shady goings on is out of his usual element and, because of that, it really works well. And, he always seems to have some luscious woman around - this time Sarah Jessica Parker.Hackman is superb as Grant's nemesis and really makes this a movie worth watching.