A bit talky, but definitely different, this is an ecological adventure set deep in the Brazilian jungle.

Lorraine Bracco is the Brooklyn girl whose brains have taken her to the top of the scientific tree.

What she doesn't reckon on is swarming up to the top of the tallest tree in the Brazilian rainforest.

Deep in the greenery works Dr Campbell, a scientist who has 'gone native', played by a pony-tailed Sean Connery.

Having found a cure for cancer, he has been unable to duplicate it. As he searches for the missing ingredient, the bulldozers clearing the jungle move closer. And now Bracco has arrived to tell him his time is running out.

This is another super performance by Connery, giving us the whole man without portraying him as too much of a saint, or making him too unsympathetic: warmth radiates from him. Bracco is raucous at first, but finally moving.

And, although stuntmen are credited, it's obvious that the stars are doing a lot of their own aerial work among the trees.

Plot-spotters will probably get the twist in the tail of this tale before Connery and Bracco stumble on it, but that won't detract from your enjoyment of a well-told story, where elements of fun, sadness, drama and action blend into good medicine.