| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 22, 1999 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Fans of the greatest working film director will be pleased.
Develops microclimates of mood without fully developing the same shadings of character.
Although it tries continually to focus on the heart, it ultimately fails to ignite it.
Blazes up constantly with a stunning, off-kilter brilliance, an incandescent force that sometimes explodes the space between us and the screen.
There's talent to burn in this movie. But the flame is cold.
Filled with so much heartbreaking beauty, Bringing Out the Dead might be best described as an artist's sketchbook, a series of tableaux and ideas that provide a telling glimpse of a director whose work is always evolving.
Downbeat and at times strangely slow-moving despite all its beautifully shot high-speed ambulance rides.
In a role as tailor-made for him as the story is for its writer and director, Nicolas Cage anchors the movie with one of his best performances.
Like its title -- blunt, thruthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth to do.
A relentless descent into a psychedelic hell, a rambunctious feel-bad epic.
Full of bravura moments and high-wire performances.
It's a slice of life, with all the trimmings, and one of the strongest films of the year.
Cage, who gives a blazing, imposive performance, uses his haunted eyes to reveal the emotional scars that Frank can't heal.
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