Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Surrounded by the injured and the dying, EMS paramedic Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Country: USA
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Paul Schrader, Joe Connelly
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Mary Beth Hurt, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, Patricia Arquette, Aida Turturro, Martin Scorsese, Cliff Curtis, David Zayas, Terry Serpico, Jack O'Connell

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4. Taxi Driver-y (public: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 2 stars)
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Mar 03 | cinebad | 80 27% |
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Feb 23 | halcyon00 | 87 65% |
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kadikoy | 65 61% |
1 ambulans hizmetlisinin hikayesi. Kafayı sıyıran sağlıkcımız, kurtardığı 1 hastanın kızına aşık olur. Martin Scorsese bu filmde pek cesaretli olamamış. Nicolas Cage'a torpil geçmiş. Patricia Arquette'li sahneler çok kötü. Yine de öykünün özünü iyi yansıtmış. Abartının dozu da kaçmış. Filmin sonunda, babayı hakkı rahmetine kavuşturuyor. Patron çıldırdı.
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Jan 05 | DenizCemDag | 80 66% |
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JSchlansky | 82 83% |
Schrader and Scorsese swap out the taxi for an ambulance and deliver another great New York by night ride-a-long with a cast full of colorful characters, interesting themes, and wild visuals. The drawbacks are mostly in the structure and the somewhat loose tying together of the many disparate narrative threads, plus Cage's narration can be woefully overwrought at points, but I would guess that was pulled straight from the source novel.
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Dec 29, 2020 | drexlspivey | 66 32% |
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Oct 21, 2020 | ![]() |
Barnowl | 93 61% |
Perhaps a lesser-known Scorsese film, Bringing Out the Dead is an original concept that sprinkles in some top-level deadpan comedy.
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Oct 12, 2020 | TEMPgen | 60 52% |
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New York at night feels so grimey. It's like Taxi Driver, only somehow even worse. It's ultimate sin is that Nic Cage doesn't go completely off the rails.
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Skating between reality and a nightmare, Scorsese's oft forgotten conclusion to the 90s is a trip. He manages to rein in a Cage performance that could have easily gone off the rails as well as direct the walking pile of cocaine that is Tom Sizemore. While this film might be the only example of over-direction from Scorsese, the chaos depicted feels visceral.
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peyrin | 80 80% |
One of Paul Schrader's most fascinatingly complex character studies, handled deftly with Scorsese's moody direction and a classic Nic Cage performance.
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Jul 30, 2019 | Demokan | 75 30% |
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Jul 27, 2019 | CiEmPank | 61 27% |
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windmeresfan | 90 86% |
most underrated Scorsese film by a good mile!
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Jun 27, 2019 | mbramhald13 | 70 47% |
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KenMeisters | 56 32% |
Nicolas Cage rambles about ghosts following him while looking out the window of an ambulance. There is a comment about the state of EMS paramedics in here, but Scorsese doesn't know what to do with it, so he just leaves it at that. There is some fun to be had when Nic Cage and his colleagues talk about their own misery or get up to shenanigans, but overall rather flat.
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Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast as the sleep-deprived and depressed paramedic who seems to be one more bad shift away from a total mental breakdown. The movie surrounding him is appropriately dark and seedy, but can sometimes feel meandering and always very much like it was made in the late 90s. Not one of Scorcese's best, but worth seeing nonetheless.
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md5fungi | 63 14% |
Bringing Out The Dead's exploration into the morose insanity of a paramedic's job and life starts out as a maniacally thrilling and thought-provoking piece of cinema. Unfortunately, the movie is content to keep painting the same dreary picture throughout its runtime with very little closure or development, and this ultimately makes the film a chore to get through.
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More chaotic and less brilliantly directed than some of Scorsese's classics, but it's still worth a watch. Second half of the film is stellar, with several memorable scenes.
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Has some nice moments and characters with a very gloomy and dark atmosphere but overall fells unsatisfying, also I think that Nicolas was miscast.
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