Movie review – “Extreme Measures” (1996) ***

Entirely decent thriller which performed poorly at the box office, mostly because Hugh Grant never seems comfortably cast. There’s nothing wrong with his performance, he’s obviously trying – it’s just he’s Hugh Grant, and he doesn’t seem right in the role. It needs a Richard Gere or Michael Douglas or something. But Tony Gilroy is a good writer (apparently William Goldman did some doctoring as well) and the story moves along with a few decent twists, and genuinely interesting moral point, and some decent actors in support, like Gene Hackman, David Morse (evil rather than cuddly) and Sarah Jessica Parker.