Frank, a mentally exhausted paramedic is on a new mission to keep him safe as he tends to various emergencies at this point. This young man started hallucinating about all the people who could not save their lives in that period.
Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
December 23, 2005
However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.
Film4
September 17, 2008
A frankly disturbing experience since Cage is at his most manic, the images are brutal, the documentary-style background intense and the (inevitable) theme of redemption a long time emerging.
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.
