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Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, et al. Released to DVD on May 9, 2000. Here in Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese, with screenwriter Paul Schrader, returns to familiar territory, the mean streets of New York City, following the life of a public servant who drives people from one place to another (Nicolas Cage / paramedic respectively) while attempting to overcome the images of one young girl that haunt him. This is such familiar territory that the above plot synopses is accurate for Bringing Out the Dead AND Taxi Driver. The problems with this film are twofold: 1)While Taxi Driver was a good movie, its peculiar subject matter doesn't easily fall into a formula that can be used over and over again in numerous films, and 2)Nicolas Cage is no Robert DeNiro. Hell, Post Leaving Las Vegas Nic Cage is no Sylvester Stallone. And while the book Bringing out the Dead is based on is enjoyable, Scorsese and Schrader seemed far more interested in making this film into Ambulance Driver than adapting the original material they had to the silver screen.
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