Comments on: Extraordinary Measures Review

By: Starring Brendan Fraser

Starring Brendan Fraser — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:50:40 +0000

good to know about positive side on this great movie…i'll rate this as an excellently written review. Thank you.

By: Starring Brendan Fraser

Starring Brendan Fraser — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:50:40 +0000

good to know about positive side on this great movie…i'll rate this as an excellently written review. Thank you.

By: BSL

BSL — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:10:44 +0000

Dear Paul, I have not seen the picture, but I would just like to say this is an excellently written review. Thank you.

By: aznman

aznman — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:33:25 +0000

Hollywood does it again. Changing the race from asian to white. I for one will not buy tickets to this crap nor will I be buying the bluray. I hope Walmart is reading this.

“Dr. Robert Stonehill doesn’t exist in real life. The Pompe cure was developed by Dr. Yuan-Tsong Chen and his colleagues while he was at Duke University. [...] Harrison Ford, as this film’s executive producer, perhaps saw Stonehill as a plum role for himself; a rewrite was necessary because [Ford] couldn’t very well play Dr. Chen. The real Chen, a Taiwan University graduate, worked his way up at Duke from a residency to professor and chief of medical genetics at the Duke University Medical Center. [Chen] has been mentioned as a Nobel candidate.” -Ebert

By: Vikinglifeguard

Vikinglifeguard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:47:56 +0000

Im glad this got a decent review (at least the 3.5 and the short description, haven't read the full thing yet). I saw the preview and thought it had potential to do well.

By: DrSamBeckett

DrSamBeckett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:57:59 +0000

Fair enough Paul, so Ford is basically being House in this movie? Ha

I wish Ford would start doing some decent movies and using some of the talent he clearly has, why does he seem content to coast through the final years of his career doing sub par movies?

By: paul_young

paul_young — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:17:58 +0000

There wasn't much to write about Sam. Ford and Russell are in the film but really are nothing more than secondary characters. In fact Russell has fewer lines and scenes than Ford. There really wasn't any up or downs in Ford's performance, it was a full on eccentric doctor that is a complete jerk. People put up with him because they need his research but in the end the formula that goes to market isn't even his.

The star of this film is Fraser, his daughter is on the screen for a limited amount of time and she's good and likable but the story is about a father's love for his children and the things he will do to save them. Everyone else in the film is there to support that story and not given much more to do.

By: DrSamBeckett

DrSamBeckett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:55:20 +0000

Nice to see a slightly posetive review about this movie, always a fan of anything Ford does, but as to the review itself, this might just be a thing for me; it doesnt really tell me anything other than the story, and I would like to know about the acting performances more than an extended synopsis.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:37:00 +0000

So safe and formulaic is OK for Avatar but not for a film like this.

Just want to be sure I understand where other reviewers are coming from.

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:39:09 +0000

Pompe actually hits at the age of 2 .
They changed it to 9 because older kids that can play and interact with their parents are easier for the audience to relate to.
Thanks for the review Paul.