In the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film “Erin Brockovich” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Extraordinary Measures” is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease.
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The New York Times
A.O Scott
"“Extraordinary Measures,” a movie about a medical breakthrough, is not especially eager to break new ground of its own. Directed with care and competence by Tom Vaughan (“What Happens in Vegas”), the film hews closely to familiar themes and patterns."
22/01/2010
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Variety
Rob Nelson
"Extraordinary Measures" takes reasonable care to enliven the fact-based story of a father's endless negotiations with the medical establishment on behalf of his terminally ill kids. Yet this first CBS Films release doesn't reach far beyond its smallscreen genotype as a disease-of-the-week telepic, despite the star power ..."
20/01/2010
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Total Film
Kate Stables
"Bland, by-the-numbers plotting and stereotypical characters give us little else to chew on, while Fraser and Ford’s repetitive ‘odd couple’ bickering gets old fast."
23/02/2010
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Time Out
Trevor Johnston
"Moderately illuminating in parts, but the clichés of cinematic suffering tend to overwhelm it. "
25/02/2010
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The Times
Tom Charity
"A saccharine score and skin-deep characterisation undo the movie’s best intentions."
27/02/2010
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The Independent
John Walsh
"The film's combination of gloopy sentiment, macho horns-locking and recondite enzyme research isn't a winner; and the slushy music, by Andrea Guerra, has you begging for mercy."
26/02/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"The film is a heart-on-sleeve weepie which takes extraordinary liberties with the truth to fashion a conventional Hollywood narrative."
26/02/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
"But it's all rather slick, manipulative and conventional and ends without mentioning the annual cost of medication for one patient: apparently $300,000 a year."
28/02/2010
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
"The film was produced by an offshoot of CBS in an attempt to take that television company into big-screen movie-making. Yet, in its stodgy storytelling, crude emoting and dreadful, gooey score, it might as well be a standard made-for-TV picture."
28/02/2010
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"On the poster, with Ford and co-star Brendan Fraser staring toughly out, it's made to look like some sort of macho thriller. I hate to think how many guys are going to go, expecting action and excitement. Instead, it's sensitivity all the way with picturesque kids with picturesque sicknesses, smiling picturesquely in courageous wheelchairs."
25/02/2010
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The Independent on Sunday
Demetrios Matheou
""dull as dishwater" isn't even close."
28/02/2010
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