Review of Bringing Out the Dead (1999) by Jordan T — 20 Feb 2013
Bringing Out the Dead is seen as a fairly love-it-or-hate-it film on Scorsese's resume, but the movie is actually one of the director's strongest offerings from the 90s. It's capitalized by black humor, an engrossing performance from Cage, and film making from Scorsese that both makes use of his cinematic obsessions yet charts out new territory for him as well.
While the film paints the streets of New York as hellish (a la Taxi Driver), the film is actually one of his flashier offerings and shows that Scorsese is capable of doing surreal drug hallucination scenes.
It's not his most profound film, and there are some odd music choices, but Bringing Out the Dead is better than most of Marty's more recent work (minus The Departed).
This review of Bringing Out the Dead (1999) was written by Jordan T on 20 Feb 2013.
Bringing Out the Dead has generally received positive reviews.
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