Review – Bringing Out the Dead

Martin Scorcese returns to the mean streets of New York to follow a Travis Bickle-esque EMT down the road to madness. The plot also borrows heavily from other angry-young-men classics, including Catch 22. Despite the occasionally effortful direction and a chemistry-free, go-nowhere romance between the protagonist (Nicolas Cage) and the love interest (Patricia Arquette), Scorcese manages to recapture enough of the look and feel of Taxi Driver to keep the production rolling. Odd bits of quirky humor, particularly in the scenes Cage shares with Ving Rhames, round out the show nicely. Mildly amusing