Mjeteconer Just perfect...

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

MJB784 I think he gives his best performance. He plays an ambulance driver who's so disoriented with driving at night and saving lives that he hallucinates and has trouble comprehending reality with fantasy. It was directed by Martin Scorsese in I say his most underrated movie.

SnoopyStyle Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) is a NY paramedic haunted by the people he can't save. It's a grimy downtrodden portrayal of the underbelly of an ignored society. It's the early 90s from director Martin Scorsese but it is reminiscent of the 70s of Scorsese's past.Nicolas Cage puts up an impressive performance as the haunted man. The series of co-stars does divide the mood of the movie. I rather let him have just one partner. The changes cause disruptions in the flow of the movie.Disruptions may be what Scorsese is looking for. The bluesy meandering feel of the movie is highlighted by the Nicolas Cage narration. We're looking at a maestro conductor in Scorsese. The movie has the feel of a composition.

namashi_1 Cinema GOD Martin Scorsese delivers Another Masterpiece in 'Bringing Out the Dead'. A Haunting, Depressing & Stunning Motion-Picture, that can even be described as a Triumph. And Nic Cage Roars in the lead role! An Excellent Performance! 'Bringing Out the Dead' Synopsis: A Manhattan ambulance paramedic, overworked and haunted by visions of his failures, fights to keep a tenuous grip on his clarity.'Bringing Out the Dead' is about Angels & Demons. Its about the Good & the Devil. Scorsese's Flawless Story-Telling along-with a Stunning & Haunting Screenplay Written by Paul Schrader, make this highly under-rated film simply unforgettable. Cinematography is fantastic. Editing is just perfect.Performance-Wise: Nic Cage delivers one of his greatest performances in here. He plays the mentally & psychically troubled protagonist with rare patience & devastation. An Excellent Performance! John Goodman is ever-terrific. Patricia Arquette is good, while Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore & Marc Anthony are believable. On the whole, 'Bringing Out the Dead' is a Masterpiece.

chaos-rampant This could have been something special, one of the great metaphors in cinema. A vehicle for us to hurl through the night of suffering, where life is transient and we learn to let go of our clinging.The movie is halfway this anyway. We ride the ambulance through the electric night of New York, ferrying back and forth from the outskirts of life broken humans who plead to us with their miseries. There are some inspired visions of this itinerant life, of the homeless sleeping where they may and haggard-looking individuals walking the pavements automaton-like, but they are too glossy for me to really register. Mere studio recreations that fail to give the impression of a life caught unawares.It's a great touch that the depressed paramedic who is our guide through this must learn to be detached from the suffering he remedies, ready to offer his helping hand but not be dismayed when that hand is refused by death. How instead of jumping in the quicksand of suffering to save others, we must learn to draw them to our safe ground.But the film is unawares of what transpires in it, and halfway through becomes a deranged comedy, played to the pounding grooves of Motown. Having missed the opportunity to create a spiritual work that matters, after this initial disappointment, it's to the movie's credit then that it does not become a mere banal lesson in humanity. As our protagonist loses it, the movie revels in the opportunity for insanity.That we get all this by the hand of Scorsese, a filmmaker with a vested interest in cinematography, only makes me think of how this could be done better, longer and more cinematic. For ostensibly bleak material, this is strangely watchable however.