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| INSPECTOR GADGET (1999) - PG
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ReviewScore: 34 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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It may be no match for their Taxi Driver and Raging Bull collaborations, but Bringing Out the Dead, from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader is receiving restrained praise from many critics. Mike Clark in USA Today pays it this left-handed compliment: "[It's the kind of] solid piece of work a major filmmaker turns in when he's figuring out what to do down the road." Similarly, Jonathan Foreman writes in the New York Post, "Downbeat and at times strangely slow-moving despite all its beautifully shot high-speed ambulance rides, Bringing Out the Dead is as technically brilliant as you would expect from a film directed by Martin Scorsese." Janet Maslin in the New York Times also expresses her reservations about the structure of the film, but then adds: "This is still a bustling, impassioned film with much to recommend it. Scorsese wrote the book on darkly evocative urban visions, and now he adds a new chapter; he deploys his huge visual vocabulary of camera movements, perspective and motion changes with unparalleled authority." Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News welcomes Scorsese's return to the mean streets of America. He writes: "Mr. Scorsese's directorial gifts make the new movie seem like a logical extension of his previous work, rather than a redux. Bringing Out the Dead is intense, harrowing and at times darkly comic. But it's never as all-engulfing as the director's best work." |
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