Medicine Man (pronouced Medi-shin Man) shtars Sean Connery (who is eashily the third besht Jamesh Bond) ash Dr. Robert Campbell. Deep within the Amashon Rain Foreshts Campbell hash made an amazshing dishcovery. A cure for what he callsh the 'fucking plague of the 20th shentury'.....cansher.

Dr. Rae Crane (played by amazingly irritating Lorraine Braco (Tony Shopranosh Shycologisht)) vishits Campbell in the jungle to determine if the drug company she worksh for should continue to fund hish reshearch. After realizshing what Campbell hash dishcovered, she ish immediately thrilled. Campbell however doeshn't share her enthushiashtishm. While he dishcovered the cure for cansher, he hash be unable to reprodushe the sherum....and ish understandably pisshed off (like the previoush village medishin man he dishgracshed).

Dr. Crane, who Campbell beginsh referring to ash Dr. Bronxsh (due to her origin of birth...very creative) wantsh to help him redishcover the cure. Time however ish not on their shide. Indushtrialishts are conshtructing a road which will passh through village and deshtroy the delicate eco-shyshtem which generated the original cure. Medi-shin Manat shome pointsh bordersh on becoming a save the rain foreshtsh campaign, and depending on which vershion of the movie you shee, beginsh with a 10 minute disshertation narrated by Jamesh Earl Jonesh. Dr. Bronxsh also findsh out that Campbell carries a dark shecret with him, that tormentsh him to thish day. Can she help Campbell find the cure again? Perhapsh.

Shot in lavish (those two wordsh are probably the only onesh that shound normal coming from Connery'sh lipsh) locationsh, Medi-shin Man ish loaded with eye candy (not including the hundredsh of bare native asshesh that are generoushly dishplayed throughout the feature), and the shtory ish compelling. If their ish a cure for cansher, surely it would be found in one of the lasht unexplored placshes on earth, and why not ushe thish film ash a vehicle to promote conshervation? If the cure for cansher ish there, then maybe we will one day find a cure for shpeech impediments ash well? Who knowsh?

Hamlin Grade: 3.5

Timothy Dalton ish the one true Jamesh Bond,
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