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...only problem is, he manages to lose it pretty quickly, too. Panicked, he is forced to team up with spunky young Dr. Rae Crane (Bracco) in a race to find the cure before the rain forest is destroyed...
Sounds reasonable, right? And it is -- until Bracco opens her mouth. Horrible lines like "Five hundred thousand scientists in the world, and I had to get stuck with Dr. Mengele with a ponytail!" are bad enough, and they are not helped by her piercing, whiny delivery...
Also, the cancer cure itself is simply too good to be true. One shot of Campbell's serum, and you can kiss your tumor problems goodbye. The film tries to add scientific authenticity by including footage of Connery and Bracco gazing into a laptop terminal. But any Tetris addict knows that a computer screen isn't necessarily a sign of serious work getting done...
...this belabors the simple point that Medicine Man is nothing more than a very dull movie. Very little happens -- there is no sex in the jungle, no man-eating snakes and no warring tribes to add interest to the film. And when something colorful does happen (Connery and Bracco swinging through the treetops, for example) the effect is hardly enough to make up for the wait...
Starring Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco...