Day 323: Bringing Out The Dead

Directed By- Martin Scorsese

Written By- Paul Schrader; Based on the Book By- Joe Connelly

Starring- Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Nestor Serrano

Run Time- 1 hr. 58 min.

Critics Review- "Martin Scorsese is a wonderful filmmaker. And he loves New York. He is at his best though, when he has an interesting story to tell."- Joe Lozito "Big Picture Big Sound"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 71% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience- 64%

Out of a possible 5 Stars- 4 stars

My Review- 

This is the second Scorsese film to be on my list and now I can mark this the one off the list of films I have not seeing by him. This Scorsese film like most of his other ones is set in New York, but its not in the fancy part or the nice part, it is in the gritty part of New York the kind we do not see a lot in films from him and its something good and different. In this film we follow a paramedic played by Cage, in one of his actually really good acting roles. Where it seems like he is on the verge of a mental breakdown due to his job and everything that he deals with. During his shit he has 3 different partners; Goodman(lets get this shift over with), Rhames (religious guy), and Sizemore (love my job so much I've gone crazy), all with different personalities and deal with each call they get differently. Throughout the movie we meet different people that Frank treats, one notably a heart attack victim who codes and gets shocked 17 times and a druggie played really well by Marc Anthony. This is possibly my favorite movie from Nicholas Cage, before he went a tad bit crazy and started doing shitty movies. This movie was able to show his once great act ability that he was known for and he even won an Academy Award for a movie, which I have yet to see. This movie was also really gritty since it was about Cage's character about to go completely made, but I really liked how it was portrayed by him. I love when Scorsese does movies like this one and makes the audience feel what the main character is feeling or trying to figure how the main character will turn out by the end of the film. There were parts of the movie that were fast paced so we were able to try and feel what Cage was feeling and at times it worked. Only of the only things that I did not like about the movie was Patricia Aqruette's part, at times I find her annoying and this was one of those movies where she was being annoying. I think it is because of the way she talks. I am glad to scratch this off the list of Scorsese movies I have seen I just have a few more to go and then I am done.