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...manage to make Sean Connery look stupid. Highlander came close, but he came out of that one with some semblance of dignity. Combine Connery's charisma with an exotic setting like the Amazon rain forest, throw in a "hard-headed female scientist" (Lorraine Bracco) and -- why not? -- a cure for cancer, and you're practically guaranteed...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that the film works on a shaky premise. It goes as follows: Kooky Dr. Robert Campbell (Connery) has been working alone in the rain forest for twenty years on the trail of a cure for cancer--and he's finally found...
...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...
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...
...cynic would be missing the point of modern medical science. We may not have a cure for every disease, alas, but there's no reason we can't have a disease for every cure. With silicone implants, small breasts became micromastia. With injectable growth hormone, short kids become treatable dwarfs. Plastic surgeons can now cure sagging jowls and chins, droopy eyelids and insufficiently imposing male chests and calves. So we can expect to hear soon about the menace of new diseases such as saggy-jowlitis and hypopectoralis...