Film Review of Bringing Out the Dead
Year: 1999 Reviewer: Chris Docker
If we're lucky it will go mainly to art-house movie theatres so that those of us wanting to be spared a boring couple of hours to ooh and ahh over Scorsese's self-indulgent lyrical of a downbeat NY hospital and emergency service will know to get a video out instead. Perhaps New Yorkers will see more in the movie than I did (even though I've visited NY many times and love the city and the films about it). I'd second another IMDb reviewer who said of the movie "Scorsese's new flick is a meandering, plotless film, completely unsure of itself from start to finish. The story is centered around a troubled paramedic (Nick Cage) who's haunted by the ghosts of those he's lost on the job and is, it seems, on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown." There - that saves me wasting new words on it.
Rating: 7/10
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