Bringing Out the Dead
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.
25 September 1962, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1967, Bronx, New York, USA
1 September 1955, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
1971, Indonesia
1973, New Jersey, USA
2 September 1973, Syracuse, New York, USA
27 July 1968, Rotorua, New Zealand
18 March 1970, Newark, New Jersey, USA
22 February 1962, New York City, New York, USA
1966, The Bronx, New York, USA
18 January 1923, Elmira, New York, USA
27 January 1920
30 December 1974, Boring, Oregon, USA
December 30, 2006
An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations. Welcome home, Marty.
December 23, 2005
However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.
August 11, 2007
Scorsese is married to a script that drags him down, keeps him from taking wing as a pure artist.
March 19, 2002
The auteur has definitely left his distinctive mark, but too seldom and too narrowly.
September 17, 2008
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.
January 01, 2000
An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.
June 24, 2006
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.
July 14, 2007
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.
August 07, 2004
Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us.
January 01, 2000
Despite the lack of energy and the lethargic pace, there's something darkly compelling about Bringing Out the Dead.
September 17, 2008
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.
