In this film, Harrison Ford becomes the second coming of Superman. The film requires not only a complete suspension of disbelief but a suspension of intelligence also (like most Sylvester and Arnold movies...). That HF survives the jump from the top of the dam without a scratch is totally unbelievable, but apparently the writers needed this kind of nonsense to sell the script.

I bought the film because I'm a fan of Tommy Lee, who always imbues a part with intelligence and warmth. Compare his performance with Ford's usual wooden acting (with a lisp no less...).

To watch HF escape from one impossible situation after another, is boring, and ultimately actually funny. Dig the scene where he is walking down a dark road, and a pretty woman stops her car and asks "Do you need a ride". Now that's real believable, eh?

In the light of all that follows, you wonder why HF couldn't subdue the ONE ARMED MAN who killed his wife. Oh right, SuperFord SHOULD have been able to do it, but there would have been no movie (and I, for one, would be grateful!!!!). And he must have had an inexperienced Legal Aid attorney, who couldn't establish reasonable doubt, to have been convicted in the first place. Beautiful, wealthy Sela Ward? So much in love? He was rich, but she was richer...not exactly a believable motive.

After he sneaks into a hospital to search out the truth (posing as a janitor), he is asked by a female doctor to wheel a black boy who is having trouble breathing to an operating room (bet than happens a lot). Then he looks at the boy's x-ray for a few seconds, decides he has been misdiagnosed, and changes the boy's chart for a change of treatment. Of course, he saves the boy's life. All in a day's work for SuperFord. Man I wish he was available to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf!!!! This guy makes Welby, Kildare, Casey, and Jonas Salk look like first year interns!!.

Then, of course, the topper. He exposes his fellow worker who falsified documents and switched tissue samples just so his new drug could be approved by the FDA ("No side effects". Oh come on. Even I don't believe that...) and he could make millions of dollars. A straw man, the surest indicator of cheap, amateurish writing.

As I said this is only for diehard Ford fans who have to own EVERY movie he made. I'm a big fan of Tommy Lee, but the film is so stupid, I have a hard time sitting through it....
In this film, Harrison Ford becomes the second coming of Superman. The film requires not only a complete suspension of disbelief but a suspension of intelligence also (like most Sylvester and Arnold movies... ). That HF survives the jump from the top of the dam without a scratch is totally unbelievable, but apparently the writers needed this kind of nonsense to sell the script. I bought the film because I'm a fan of Tommy Lee, who always imbues a part with intelligence and warmth. Compare his performance with Ford's usual wooden acting (with a lisp no less... ). To watch HF escape from one impossible situation after another, is boring, and ultimately actually funny. Dig the scene where he is walking down a dark road, and a pretty woman stops her car and asks "Do you need a ride". Now that's real believable, eh? In the light of all that follows, you wonder why HF couldn't subdue the ONE ARMED MAN who killed his wife. Oh right, SuperFord SHOULD have been able to do it, but there would have been no movie (and I, for one, would be grateful!!!! ). And he must have had an inexperienced Legal Aid attorney, who couldn't establish reasonable doubt, to have been convicted in the first place. Beautiful, wealthy Sela Ward? So much in love? He was rich, but she was richer... not exactly a believable motive. After he sneaks into a hospital to search out the truth (posing as a janitor), he is asked by a female doctor to wheel a black boy who is having trouble breathing to an operating room (bet than happens a lot). Then he looks at the boy's x-ray for a few seconds, decides he has been misdiagnosed, and changes the boy's chart for a change of treatment. Of course, he saves the boy's life. All in a day's work for SuperFord. Man I wish he was available to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf!!!! This guy makes Welby, Kildare, Casey, and Jonas Salk look like first year interns!! . Then, of course, the topper. He exposes his fellow worker who falsified documents and switched tissue samples just so his new drug could be approved by the FDA ("No side effects". Oh come on. Even I don't believe that... ) and he could make millions of dollars. A straw man, the surest indicator of cheap, amateurish writing. As I said this is only for diehard Ford fans who have to own EVERY movie he made. I'm a big fan of Tommy Lee, but the film is so stupid, I have a hard time sitting through it....