Medicine Man

I'm a big fan of John McTiernan's film work, as I am of Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco. Sadly, as visually stunning as MEDICINE MAN is I find it falls flat as a birthday cake baked in Iraq! Connery was reportedly paid ten million for this preachy clunker and though he is as charming as ever his performance is of the mail in variety. Bracco gives it her all here but the script simply does not provide her much to work with. The idea of finding a cure for cancer in the Amazon rain forest is a good one but it comes off as something David Suzuki would have scripted. Worth a look for the camera work for sure but don't expect much from the plot....you do get to see Sean alunch some nice golf balls though.