The movie, written by Tony Gilroy, is pitched at a higher level than most thrillers; the dialogue is literate and intelligent, and Grant is more of an everyman than an action hero.

Is it excusable to kill a few indigents here and there experimenting for a miracle cure? Measures' painfully protracted Hour 2 turns into a melodramatic debate about ethics.

...a solid medical thriller that's lamentably been forgotten in the years since its 1996 theatrical release.

It's a fish out of water story in which neither the fish nor anybody else seems aware of his 'out of water' status.