rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1999
Directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Barbara De Fina, Scott Rudin; screenplay by Paul Shcrader
Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Let me start by saying that the movie never bored me. I wanted to keep
watching on the way, but I am not really sure if I liked it. There are a lot
of things here you can admire and therefor it is definitely worth watching.
Nicolas Cage as the paramedic Frank is as good as he was in 'Leaving Las
Vegas', and on his three days of work we see him with three other
paramedics. Larry (John Goodman) on the first day, Marcus (Ving Rhames) on
the second and Walls (Tom Sizemore) on the third. They all deal with the
horror they see in a different way.
There is not a real story here although the episodes with a girl named Mary
(Patricia Arquette) and a girl named Rose, a girl that could not be saved by
Frank. He sees her everywhere he goes, he has other hallucinations, he hears
voices from people in a coma: he is slowly going crazy. The way this is
shown by great director Martin Scorsese is one of the other good things in
this movie. The streets really look like horror scenes. The cinematography
adds a lot to the atmosphere. For just watching film material it is very
good, as a feature film and an enjoyable evening I can't really say.