Good concept, poorly executed.

Absolutely brilliant

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Continuing my plan to watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to Medicine Man (1992)I had to buy this one to complete his filmography, but never took its out of its wrapping, since I was bored stiff watching it in a cinema in 1992.It is not difficult to see what might have attracted Connery to this movie in the first place. The theme is both the environment and health. What is not so clear is why he, in his role of actor and executive producer, accepted the script with its awful dialogue and clichéd situations.This is a tough one to say good things about, Connery, again with his ponytailed wig, remains as watchable as always, but this really is not two of his better hours. Medicine Man finish the year as the 35th highest grossing movie of 1992. Grossing $45 million at the domestic box office.

this often missed film is a simply a classic in the Connery library of greats.touching upon the destruction of the Amazonian and their way of life, the rainforest's and their secrets, it is a magical tour in to a way of life long long forgotten by so called civilised man...that in this chaos of the rainforest a cure for the modern killer cancer is alive and kicking....and could be lost...for the scenery, the superb dialogue i would recommend that if it comes on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon matinée get the kids sat down, get some popcorn and enjoy a modern classic....i wonder if they real versions of Bronx and Campbell are out there...if they are then let us hope they can save what is left of an undiscovered country and still give us "civilised" people the cure for modern plague...

A totally underestimated production! Should have received a bunch of Oscars! Check it's validity today. Al Gore should adopt it. One of the first hints of climate change, completely ignored. Some early, untimely wisdom - but what has human kind learned since? Unfortunately there is only insufficient progress. A very entertaining way to elaborate and present pertinent environmental issues. A bit too one sided, leaving out many socio economic issues. However, there is no need to be scientifically absolutely correct -the message comes across, without insulting indigenous cultures. Everybody should view this movie today and learn from it (trivia and dramatization don't spoil the story)... Can't get better than this! Jerry Goldsmith at his best (worth more than an Oscar for best music, but he will earn a lifetime award anyway)!

Okay, there's this weird scientist, Sean Connery, who's hidden himself away in the tropical rainforest of South America and has been incommunicado for years. A "foundation" sends down a youngish, award-winning scientist, played by Lorraine Bracco, to monitor his behavior, find out what's up, and decide whether or not to cut off his funding. Lots of barbed exchanges here between the old curmudgeon and the independent new woman. Some comedy too as he slips her a psychedelic that cures headaches. As it develops, Connery, with Bracco's help, finds the source of a cure for lymphoma in the top terrace of the rainforest. Alas, before he can harvest enough of the stuff to explore the possibility of its being synthesized, some big industrial operation plows a road through the forest and destroys the trees in which the stuff grows. Bittersweet ending. Humankind is hoist by its own petard by what some ecologists call a "progress trap." As compensation the old fox and the young feminist become friends. It's a bad trade.Between 1960 and 1990 one fifth of the world's rainforest was lost. In Brazil, where this film is supposedly set, the Amazon rainforest between 1991 (when the film was shot) and the year 2000 has lost between 415 and 587 square kilometers, an area about twice the size of Portugal. The tragedy is not that the forest is gone. Who cares about wood? It's the consequences, many of them falling into the category of "unknown unknowns" that counts. WOULD a biochemist of Sean Connery's persistence and quirkiness have found a way of combating lymphoma (or anything else)? We're not going to find out now. Among the "known known" consequences, the deforestation has eliminated entire species of plants and animals at an alarming rate, including one primate. (Humans are primates too.) The little message behind the story is, of course, fashionable and politically correct, which for some people makes it wrong. Lorraine Bracco, with her bulky figure and oddly handsome features, seems a likable woman. You can tell because in all of her performances she seems to be playing herself. She can be loud and stubborn but one never senses genuine contempt behind her shouting. I wouldn't mind having an argument with her. It might be amusing. Sean Connery plays a role that must by now be familiar to him, almost shopworn, and he does his schtick well. There appears to be a lot of half-naked Guaranis running around, acting as translators and comic relief, but this is really a two-person picture.At one point Bracco is tripping on this native stuff and having a hell of a good time. She babbles on about marketing it for adults, putting sugar in it, and calling it by some pronounceable name. I wish that she'd have accomplished that because unless we recognize a progress trap when we see one coming, we may need that psychedelic elixir.