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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe overall feel is one of a generic, feel-good drama, albeit one with Harrison Ford stomping around most of the time as if someone kicked him in the shins. One suspects that this is a story that deserved better.
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreExtraordinary Measures isn’t extraordinary. It’s simply safe.
- 50VarietyVarietyDoesn't reach far beyond its smallscreen genotype as a disease-of-the-week telepic, despite the star power of Brendan Fraser as the desperate dad and Harrison Ford as an eccentric, ornery researcher.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThere's nothing cinematic about this turgid tearjerker except the slumming presence of movie star Harrison Ford.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn ordinary film with ordinary characters in a story too big for it. Life has been reduced to a Lifetime movie.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe results feel a little harried, as if the focus issues were never really solved.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyFor this dynamic to work, the actors need to be of complementary temperament and equal power. This is not the case.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterIt never rises above formula fare.
- 25Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezEverything about this excruciatingly dull, talky film screams made-for-network-TV: The I'm-only-here-for-a-paycheck performances by famous actors; the Crate and Barrel catalog mise-en-scene; the syrupy, heartwarming score that lays the pathos on so thickly you gag on it.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenLooks and tastes an awful lot like a TV movie of the week.