Its hard-to-pin-down tone is frighteningly original -- simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety, as if the characters and filmmakers were in pursuit of a catharsis everyone knows will never come.
Bringing Out the Dead
Any call can be murder, any stop can be suicide, any night can be the last.
1999 · 2h 1m · R
Drama
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
Of course, it's immaculately crafted and exhilaratingly paced, but in the end it's never as emotionally involving as it could and should be.
Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us.
Scorsese has delivered a film that's both savage and sorrowing.
If you enjoy redemptions drenched in rhapsodic agony, religious mysticism and the bloody ick of emergency room chaos, that journey will be bliss for you.
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