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.
Comment
09/17/08
Rate this Movie 
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
72 %
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 74
Rotten:29
Average Rating: 6.8/10
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 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames, John Goodman
Director: Martin Scorsese
Get This Movie
Reviews for Bringing Out the Dead
Top Critic 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.
09/17/08
Top Critic
Scorsese is married to a script that drags him down, keeps him from taking wing as a pure artist.
08/11/07
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.
07/14/07
An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations. Welcome home, Marty.
12/30/06
Click to read the article
10/14/06
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.
06/24/06
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
Top Critic Everyone looks dead and they speak as if they live in a nightmarish dreamworld. Well, they do.
06/23/04
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
Top Critic A riveting drama about a New York City paramedic who is experiencing a harrowing spiritual emergency.
03/04/02
Latest News for Bringing Out the Dead
October 05, 2006:
Critical Consensus: "Departed" Is Best Reviewed Wide Release of 2006
This week at the movies, we've got cops and robbers in Boston ("The Departed," starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon), chainsaw massacres in Texas... More...
Related Forums for Bringing Out the Dead
BRINING OUT THE DEAD does for ambulance-rescue what "Taxi Driver" did for cab rides?
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
BRINING OUT THE DEAD does for ambulance-rescue what "Taxi Driver" did for cab rides?
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
BRINING OUT THE DEAD does for ambulance-rescue what "Taxi Driver" did for cab rides?
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
by: REEL_REVIEWER 3/21/05
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
 48% |
Smart People |
 89% |
Kung Fu Panda |
| 61% |
Journey to the Center … |
| 67% |
The Incredible Hulk |
| 76% |
Indiana Jones and the … |
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
| 96% |
WALL-E |
| 83% |
Tropic Thunder |
| 63% |
Sisterhood of the Trav… |
| 93% |
Encounters At the End … |
| 88% |
Gonzo: The Life and Wo… |
IGN RSS Feeds