Bringing Out the Dead

Bringing Out the Dead is not for everyone, to be sure. It is a very visual movie. Visceral and often assaulting in style. it's a surreal stunner well acted by all involved. Of course Nicolas Cage is twitchy brilliance as usual,... Full review

I thought this movie was horrible. And look at the cast. Then again I just realized it was directed by Martin Scorcese, and then the content, I'm not a big fan off. Reminds me of 8mm.. Nicholas Cage should stick to... Full review

It's a very different and amazing movie. Very intense, because it shows all difficulties some professionals - in this case, they are paramedics - have to deal with and all the things they have to go through to help strangers,... Full review

This surreal portrayal of a stressed-out depressed, alcoholic and generally weird paramedic is a movie you cannot watch just like that. I recommend watching it late at night, but not too tired, since you have to be quite alert to... Full review

As an emergency physician and film buff, this film is one of my favorites. Martin Scorcese utilized excellent film technique with his inventive camera shots integrated with a dark comedic plot (check out the triage nurse) to create a bright... Full review

this movie made me want to give up painting to become a movie director...then I realized...I was only one semester away from getting my degree and that was a bad time to switch majors...but many, many camera angles made me feel... Full review

Certainly cannot be appreciated by everyone, but you'll find if not for scorsese, we wouldn't be able to understand what the paramedic's feelings are.... Full review

If you have ever worked as a Medic in a big city, this is like watching a replay of your life. Gritty and realistic. You can so identify with Nicholas Cages' character. You find yourself thinking, "Hey, I worked that call."... Full review

Contrary to what the name suggests, "Bringing Out the Dead" is not really about dead people. It tells the story of New York paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), who is feeling haunted by the ghosts of the people whom he... Full review

I am going to school to become a paramedic. I am going to buy it when i find it . It has everything a good movie should have. Violence, language and graphic images. Mr. Cage's best movie.... Full review

These ambulance scenes are the film's most over-the-top and they contain some of Mr Martin Scorsese is a wonderful filmmaker. Scorsese's finest visuals ... Full Review

The program traces his works chronologically beginning with the Roger Corman exploitation film Boxcar Birtha, through Scorsese's masterpieces Raging Bull and Taxi Driver and ending with Bringing out the Dead. Scorsese is my all time favorite living director so I was really looking forward to this disc. ... Full Review

Deleted Scenes: n/a A/V Quality: 9 out of 10 Scorsese's film comes through brilliantly. Now on to the review Film Rating: 7 out of 10 Bringing Out The Dead was way better than I expected. ... Full Review

BOTD is actually a decent film Bringing Out the Dead doesn't deserve a lot of notice It's too bad Scorsese couldn't have mustered a more compelling boy/girl relationship than what we find, as Bringing Out the Dead had promise. ... Full Review

Though there's no denying that this is beautiful filmmaking, "Bringing Out the Dead" is a film you admire more than warm up to. Despite the virtuosity with which it's made and the way it's enlivened by periodic use of black humor, "Bringing Out the Dead" has the same kind of difficulty connecting with the audience that Frank has with Mary. ... Full Review

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From the beginning, it is evident that although the situations that take place in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead are a picture of the life of one particular man, the film is intended to be generalized. ... Full Article

The structure of Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead makes various settings familiar through the predictable circling between them in the many cycles of the plot. ... Full Article

It's hardly surprising that "Bringing Out the Dead," the latest collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader, bears more than a passing resemblance to their first collaboration, 1976's classic "Taxi Driver." ... Full Article

A funny thing can happen to filmmakers - and artists in general - who have been around for a while: They lose their mojo. Their careers are going great, and then suddenly - pfffft! - they're laying critical and commercial... ... Full Article