Best movie of this year hands down!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Two mans escape barely naked from an institute. One of them reaches at a hospital where Dr. Guy Luthan works who is a very good medic and has extreme care of his patients. Unfortunately he can not save the stranger who arrives at him but he has a doubt on the way he dies so now he starts to look for some clues that might bring him the truth and why that man was is such a worse condition.Hugh Grant plays the role very good although Gene Hackman doesn't appear for a very long time in the movie only at the end. This movie leaves us with a question on our minds. Is it good too kill some one in order to save other lives? Dr. Lawrence Myrick has a clinic where he brings homeless peoples or the kind that nobody will miss their absence and carry out on them experiments in witch he can find the cure to paralysis.A rough movie and I think it's one of the best on this topic from the '90 and with two great actors that give a dose of reality witch makes it even more real.

Extreme Measures constituted the first big attempt by the inflated-ego double act of Grant and Hurley to crack America with their imported production. It was a serious project - Michael Apted directs. But even the middle-of the road reception of Nine and a Half Months in the States (co-star Julianne Moore moved on to become a mainstream and indie darling) couldn't prepare the audience for the square peg in a round hole that Grant produced. His performance is heroic in as much as he soldiers on despite his rather wet screen presence. I think it's the hair. Seriously.Sarah Jessica Parker's an anonymous love interest, Hackman's thinking about renewing his agent... I didn't mind David Morse, who does thinking thugs rather well. A failed experiment. 3/10

Is it justifiable to kill innocent people to save thousands of lives? What if these people won't be missed by anybody?This fundamental question behind "Extreme Measures" raises the film above the level of a purely forgettable action-adventure story. Two different positions on this issue are represented in the film by doctors played by Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. Most of the movie focuses on Grants investigation on the nature of the mysterious deaths of several homeless people, an investigation that leaves him to uncover the truth behind research conducted by Gene Hackman.In the meantime there's some routine, below-par chase scenes. It's all been done before, and better. An absolutely endless journey into an underground subway goes on for far too long. Hugh Grant is a surprising choice for his role but fares surprisingly well, despite his simply distracting hair.But what's really worth thinking about is the ethical dilemma. Is Hackman's abduction (and essential murder) of the homeless men a justifiable way to find life-saving cures Hugh's stance, that the men didn't ask to be heroes, perhaps makes the most sense, but the question remains. Unfortunately the film requires and unlikely (but once again competently done) shootout to put an end to the conflict. But the film deserves credit for raising the issue, an issue that could very well become increasingly relevant to life and research. 2/4

This movie is very relevant in this day and age with the on slot of diseases and people who are searching for the answers. Hugh Grant playing the moral side of this left and right medical thriller. The big question brought up in this film is that of medical morals that have been brought up in many movies and in the thoughts of many people, " Would you kill many people to save lives in the name of medicine?"Hugh Grant is amazing as the hero Doctor Guy Luthan. His character works feverishly to find the truth of," What is going on with this mysterious men that come into his life, why his life is being destroyed and what is "Triphase"?" This is a good movie of Hugh Grant's and shows how he works well as a serious actress which I think he should go back to. Go rent this movie or check HBO for the next time it appears.