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Summary: not one of the good Nicholas Cage films
Review: I am a fan of Nicholas Cage but there is only one word to describe this movie: "boring"
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Summary: NICK CAGE IS SUPERB IN THIS FLICK!
Review: THIS FILM IS INCREDIBLE! I COULD BARELY BLINK WHILE WATCHING IT! I WAS PHYSICALLY TENSE AND A LITTLE QUEEZY THROUGH-OUT.I don't recommend this to too many people because it's so gritty. But I guarantee I'LL SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN!
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Summary: odd
Review: this movie was odd.it focuses on nicholas cages charectors life. im surprised. i had very low expectaions. its cool and exciting and unusual. this is also very strange.
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Summary: I HAVEN'T SLEPT YET
Review: I almost bought this movie one day and thought better rent it
first-I'm glad I did! It didn't make much sense since it takes place in New York City
a city that I dont care much for-but Nicholas cage was cool as
always but I didn't care much for this one much! Make sure to rent before buying.
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Summary: Simply put, an excellent film
Review: Martin Scorsese, the best living American director, whose passion for film reaches deeper than the man's skin, has achieved a masterpiece for each decade. In the seventies it was Taxi Driver. In the eighties it was Raging Bull. And of course in the nineties it was Goodfellas. Whether you like his films or not, and granted that not all of them are perfect, you must accept that the performances made by the protagonists are of such a high order that the actors never meet that standard again. Take Pesci for example. Name one film he has been better in since Goodfellas. Or what about Ray Liotta. for such a breathtaking performance in Goodfellas his film career never really took off, and with that, his films choices certainly jeopardised his film performances. Need I say much for Sharon Stone in Casino or Bob Deniro in Raging Bull (and King Of Comedy). With each of his films Scorsese's touch is omniscient, and I feel Bringing Out The Dead is a fine example. Nicholas Cage, a truly emotional and thorough actor, had certainly taken some wrong turns since his well-deserved Oscar, with major roles in the ridiculous 8MM and even more ridiculous Snake Eyes. With this film he returns to form, and is quite simply flawless. Tom Sizemore, Patricia Arquette and Ving Rhames all put in career best performances, with John Goodman supplying an edge similar to the character played in The Big Lebowski. The cinematography will blow your mind, being an assault on the senses (with the director's trademark red glow being used to full effect). Paul Schrader has collaborated with Scorsese twice before and the result has been two thrilling pieces of cinema. This time Schrader has adapted from Joe Connelly's account of paramedic life in NY, with a twist of guilt, violence and search for redemption. This is pure gold for Scorsese and the results are up there for you to see with your own eyes. The autumn/winter period of 1999 was such a thrilling time for American cinema with The Insider, Fight Club, Three Kings, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich and Magnolia (among others) being released back to back in such short periods that Bringing Out The Dead literally became the forgotten film. Arguably this is Scorsese's best work since Goodfellas (although Kundun was exceptional) and deserves to be seen, for I could not remove my eyes from the screen, and with another soundtrack filled with atmospheric tracks I could feel the Scorsese power take over me. It can be an exhausting, gruelling experience but for me this film is like purgatory. We suffer with Cage, but we emerge cleansed and rejuvenated at the end. The DVD follows suit by being another terrible Scorsese DVD. Bare bone extras, no commentary but a solid, vivid picture transfer.
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Summary: deception
Review: This film is like an episode of "emergency room": boring and repetitiv !
If you want to see a good Scorcese movie choose another one!
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Summary: I had a feeling the masses wouldn't like this
Review: Because so many typical Americans don't want to see film that challenges them on any level, and because the moviegoing public is apparently okay with Nic Cage cranking out dreck role after tripe film, I had a feeling people would view this movie like a train wreck. Open your ears/eyes/minds, people. Scorsese knows what he's doing. Without going into plot details that have already been outlined in the header review, the redeeming quality of the film is its ability to set a mood, pull you out of that mood, then push you back into that mood. Bringing Out The Dead is not typical. They don't call it Hell's Kitchen for nothing. The EMS clientele is mostly a parade of folks that you & I are glad that we are not. Junkies, the mentally ill, the criminally mentally ill, thugs, pushers, and the aging. Cage's fractured mental state is portrayed with both a superior soundtrack, as well as some fantastically dark imagery & angular motion. One minute, the cinematography languishes, the next it speeds into overdrive. Not the slick soulless overdone MTV-style quick-cut, but a very intriguing method to creeping madness. The film made me feel sick. Sick like the denizens of its universe. I give any movie credit that can make me feel anything beyond token Hollywood sound-cue emotion. The suppporting trio of Goodman/Rhames/Sizemore play their roles to perfection. And for once, Cage's brow-furrowed sulking is penetrated by moments of honest confusion and almost messianic enlightenment. The religious & spiritual overtones present in the film would be enough for a month's worth of discussion at your local film school. It's simply a good film. Not great, possibly because a movie that makes you crawl inside the gutter of your own mind wouldn't leave you thinking it was the most joyful experience you've ever had. But watching Bringing Out The Dead proves to be a refreshing trip through certain psychosis.
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Summary: X-TREME REDEMPTION
Review: ...this movie [is] ridiculously underrated. For me, it may be Scorsese's best, dealing as it does with life and death in a profound and visionary manner. There are some scenes which are truly unforgettable: the dead rising from the streets of Manhattan, the drug dealer impaled on a fence on a high-rise balcony musing on the beauty of the moment as blowtorch sparks fly against the city night sky, the light-bleached final scene when Cage and Arquette find a moment of redemption. The movie as a whole gives a compelling picture of people struggling at the extreme margins of life in Hell's Kitchen (which has rarely seemed more hellish), mostly at night, with an almost perpetual near death experience. This is beyond entertainment: it is radical insight.
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Summary: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
Review: Don't Judge this movie by its cover unless your version has a big pile of dog crap on it. If you're bulemic check this one out after you've binged on a big mac to save your finger the trouble.
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Summary: A Very well acted, yet over dramatized movie
Review: A good effort by Nicholas Cage, although I wouldn't exactly say it was one of his better films. He put just the right amount of panic into this movie, and without his superior acting ability (as with so many other movies) this would have been a flop
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