Medicine Man | | Cast : | Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco | | Director : | John McTiernan | | Studio : | Hollywood Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 07, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | July 01, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 26, 2005 | | Summary | worthless | Content
 | I wouldn't even watch this movie again if it was on tv...don't buy it |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2004 | | Summary | For fans of Connery | Content
| Medicine Man is not as strong as it could have been, particularly because Lorraine Bracco's performance was too loud; she screams and yells and rants and complains a lot. What the movie does have going for it is its lush environs, and Sean Connery swaggering around with a pony tail. He's a compelling screen presence, and he can take the most awkward moments in the plot and make them absorbing. The movie is saved by the fact that he's onscreen for so much of it, giving a great performance as the eccentric, acerbic, and secretly tortured researcher. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 03, 2004 | | Summary | For Medicinal Purposes | Content
| Before Medine Man, I didn't think of director John McTiernan, as someone who would put a "message" into his films. After all Die Hard, Predator, and The Thomas Crown Affair remake, are not exactly known as "thinking people" movies. I am an admirer of his action work very much and like Connery too. I was impressed with the way Medicine Man was able to combine enough action and message without going overboard in either direction. Totally removing himself from modern society, Dr Robert Campbell (Connery), has become a Medicine Man to the people of the Amazonian village, in which he now calls home. Thanks to an unforeseen mishap, Campbell has discovered that the cure for cancer can be derived from a chemical found in a Brazilian flower. Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco), a fellow scientist from the states, tracks down the elusive Campbell in an effort to monitor his progress. The two doctors are practically at odds from the moment they meet. When a villager becomes sick, Campbell wants to use only remaining bit of cancer curing serum, to save the native's life. Rae isn't sure if that's a good idea. As if battling each other, weren't enough, the doctors find themselves having to also deal with a group of loggers who pose a danger to the village and to the cancer cure. Shot in Mexico and Brazil, director McTiernan delivers the goods and the theme of conservation is delivered but not on a soapbox using a bullhorn. Also gone is the gore from McTiernan's other films, but the action is exciting to watch just the same. The sparks and chemistry between Connery and Bracco are intense. They are evenly matched in the film. Campbell is as memorable a character for Connery to play, as his turn as Malone was, in The Untouchables. Mention must also be made of composer Jerry Goldsmith's very fitting score to the film and how it adds flavor to the mix. Medicine Man deserves to have a special edition DVD release. The bonus material is, to say the least, lacking. Aside from the forgone theatrical trailer, the disc also has an EPK style, and all too brief production featurette. Unfortunately, the featurette is even less interesting than watching paint dry. Recommended until a better version comes along. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 17, 2004 | | Summary | Really terrible casting.... | Content
| When film historians look back at the early 90's, they will remember it as the decade that Hollywood started running out of ideas on how to do good movies. This film might have worked but the casting was just not there. The director should have seriously looked for the right actors to play the parts. The ones choosen here did not and could not pull it off, and it looks more like an infomerical. |
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