Misure straordinarie

Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser star in a well-meaning but ultimately lukewarm film that attempts to dip into both science and sentiment.

"Extraordinary Measures," starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, is a desperate drama of a father racing against time to find a cure for a rare genetic disease that is killing two of his children. So you know going in that the challenge for director Tom Vaughan is how to handle the science and the sentiment -- tear-soaked terrain that has proved difficult for filmmakers over the years from "Love Story" to "Lorenzo's Oil." Vaughan opts for restraint on both fronts, giving us a life-and-death story that feels brisk, business-like and oddly emotionless as we follow the deterioration of the kids and the difficulties of the research, as well as the business of turning a scientific theory into a life-saving, and as important, profit-generating treatment. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3880 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 22 gennaio 2010