Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
72 %
Reviews Counted: 99 Fresh: 71 Rotten:28 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
Stunning and compelling, Scorsese and Cage succeed at satisfying the audience.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18 year-old girl whom he was unable... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader
Producer: Barbara De Fina, Scott Rudin
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader
Producer: Barbara De Fina, Scott Rudin
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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Scorsese is married to a script that drags him down, keeps him from taking wing as a pure artist.
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08/11/07
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10/14/06
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06/24/06
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However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.
12/23/05
It's another burnout role for Nicolas Cage, to which he brings his vast repertoire of grimaces and shuffles, as if he were variously impersonating a gargoyle on amphetamines and late Elvis on downers.
03/03/05
I don't recommend it, unless you care to see the best Nicolas Cage performance in several years, or some more of Scorcese's brilliant camera work.
12/06/04
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Everyone looks dead and they speak as if they live in a nightmarish dreamworld. Well, they do.
06/23/04
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12/02/02
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11/06/02
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Give it to Martin Scorsese to keep coming back and hitting one out of the park.
09/10/02
Bringing Out the Dead fails on almost every level at which Taxi Driver succeeded.
06/05/02
Um filme sobre solidão, medo e angústia que jamais fornece respostas fáceis para os dolorosos dilemas de seus personagens.
05/31/02
The auteur has definitely left his distinctive mark, but too seldom and too narrowly.
03/19/02
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A riveting drama about a New York City paramedic who is experiencing a harrowing spiritual emergency.
03/04/02
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