Bringing Out the Dead

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

While some scenes are slow, and it's obvious where Cage and Mary are going with their relationshp, and Bringing Out the Dead is totally unrealistic at moments (ambulance drivers downing drink after drink seems not only ludicrous but illegal), yet it does grab your attention, and proves mighty engaging at times. ... Full Review

The larger failure is that almost everyone-Cage's character included-behaves like an idiot escapee from an insane asylum. So he quickly reverts to violent mood swings, even as he becomes involved with Mary (Patricia Arquette), daughter of the heart-attack victim. ... Full Review

Bringing Out the Dead" may not have the wide commercial prospects of, let's say, Cage's haphazard, but financially successful, 1997 action product, "Con Air," but is a remarkably superior creation. Bringing Out the Dead" is a highly assured, meditative look on the fragility of life, and it also acts as both an intriguing guide into the profession of ambulance drivers, as well as the atmosphere within the walls of a hospital, which, from secondhand experience, is realistic in almost every one of its details ... Full Review

So, from the camera work to the casting, there's much to admire about Bringing Out the Dead .....To his credit, Scorsese is eager to avoid his mistake in Casino , where he served up a windier reprise of something done much better before.....Even an off-form Martin Scorsese is more impressive than most directors in full gallop.....It certainly looks good on paper, what with the estimable talents of Nicolas Cage in the lead role....the disembodied spectre of a great director who's not quite there..... ... Full Review

Where the film really succeeds is as a spotlight for Cage, who manages to make Frank extremely human and sympathetic, in spite of certain character developments. Of all director Martin Scorsese's films, this overly ambitious dark comedy-drama may be one of his most unfocused, inconsistent works, and one that even his most ardent of fans may be divided over. ... Full Review