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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:74
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Stunning and compelling, Scorsese and Cage succeed at satisfying the audience.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames, John Goodman
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for Bringing Out the Dead
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I congratulate Martin Scorsese on this miraculous triumph over his personal demons, and pray for the swift recovery of his art. Full Review |
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A frankly disturbing experience since Cage is at his most manic, the images are brutal, the documentary-style background intense and the (inevitable) theme of redemption a long time emerging. Full Review |
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Its hard-to-pin-down tone is frighteningly original -- simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety, as if the characters and filmmakers were in pursuit of a catharsis everyone knows will never come. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Scorsese is married to a script that drags him down, keeps him from taking wing as a pure artist. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Martin Scorsese is a wonderful filmmaker. And he loves New York. He is at his best, though, when he has an interesting story to tell. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations. Welcome home, Marty. Full Review |
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Of course, it's immaculately crafted and exhilaratingly paced, but in the end it's never as emotionally involving as it could and should be. Full Review |
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3/4 |
However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip. Full Review |
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It's assuredly the work of a master filmmaker. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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B- |
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. Full Review |
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Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Everyone looks dead and they speak as if they live in a nightmarish dreamworld. Well, they do. Full Review |
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A very different and, in many respects, very impressive film. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Overlooked Martin Scorsese movie has grim humor, grit and grace. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Give it to Martin Scorsese to keep coming back and hitting one out of the park. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Bringing Out the Dead fails on almost every level at which Taxi Driver succeeded. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Um filme sobre solidão, medo e angústia que jamais fornece respostas fáceis para os dolorosos dilemas de seus personagens. Full Review |
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