Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Extreme Measures is a competent but unremarkable medical thriller. The plot has an intriguing ethical core — unethical human experimentation for the greater good — but the execution follows familiar conspiracy-thriller beats without much surprise. Hugh Grant is credible in a against-type dramatic role and Gene Hackman lends authority to the antagonist, but neither performance transcends the material. The cinematography is functional mid-90s studio work with no distinctive visual identity. The film covers well-trodden 'doctor uncovers dark secret' territory without offering a fresh angle, and the resolution wraps things up in a fairly conventional way that doesn't fully honour the moral complexity the premise promised.