Hugh Grant does his usual acting job of hesitating and acting surprised most of the time, but acting isn't a problem in this movie. When he has cocaine planted in his apartment by the bad guys, his closest friends and associates are quick to believe that he adopted drug use as a way of life. When he finds a homeless group underneath the city, they know too much about what is going on, yet don't trust him. Why were they not less trusting of the bad guys who were doing experiments on them? Why were the bad guys using innocent homeless people instead of prisoners or the terminally ill? The bad guys didn't make up very good cover stories for what they were trying to hide. Why not have one of their hit-men pose as the nearest relative of Claude and take his body away? Why wouldn't they need to keep a patient's body after he died for the research they were doing on him? It's a good story idea, and it presents a good moral question, but there are too many flaws. I can see FBI agents allowing research to be done that could help their loved ones, but I can't see them killing innocent people to cover it up.
Review of Extreme Measures
