Desperate Measures

Rating: **
Date Seen: 1998-02-20

Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia, is a movie about a father who will do anything to get an organ transplant for his son, including coming to the aid of a psychopathic murderer. While the story did present some interesting ethical questions, it failed to explore them with much depth, opting instead for action sequences galore.

If you can manage to suspend disbelief repeatly, you will enjoy the movie. I had mixed success with this. Somehow, it just doesn't seem possible that a hospitol swarming with police would be able hide someone like our convict for so long without them catching up and apprehending him. During the last half-hour, the movie degenerates into a cliched run-of-the-mill action flick. The action was well done, but the movie could have been so much more if it had maintained some degree of believability.

I thought the characters could have been developed better, but oh well. It's still a decent movie.