MJB784 I think he gives his best performance. He plays an ambulance driver who's so disoriented with driving at night and saving lives that he hallucinates and has trouble comprehending reality with fantasy. It was directed by Martin Scorsese in I say his most underrated movie.

Sam Morrison Scorsese and Cage go together like pennant butter with jelly, great on their own, together they are magical. This is absolutely my favorite Scorsese film, it is a piercing and unfazed look into the abyss of human behavior. It is a chronicle of how low you can sink and the potential redemption that always seems to be tauntingly in the distance.We open on Nic Cage's eyes, weary, worn. He stared into the pit of the city, and it stares back at him, boasting its Red Death and cardiac arrests. There's no way to escape the pit of hell, the pit of this festering life.

SnoopyStyle Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) is a NY paramedic haunted by the people he can't save. It's a grimy downtrodden portrayal of the underbelly of an ignored society. It's the early 90s from director Martin Scorsese but it is reminiscent of the 70s of Scorsese's past.Nicolas Cage puts up an impressive performance as the haunted man. The series of co-stars does divide the mood of the movie. I rather let him have just one partner. The changes cause disruptions in the flow of the movie.Disruptions may be what Scorsese is looking for. The bluesy meandering feel of the movie is highlighted by the Nicolas Cage narration. We're looking at a maestro conductor in Scorsese. The movie has the feel of a composition.

Dailey Okay, that may be too harsh, as I've seen a lot of truly terrible films at film festivals, but this has spoiled me on Scorcese -- making me wonder if he's actually got talent, or just makes films with violence and top-notch crew and scripts, so that it comes together. Is he just a guy who made two films that established him as a "visionary" in people's minds, so that he gets tons of top talent joining with him, the best scripts, etc. This film made this questions come to the forefront, because this seems truly to be his "vision" also -- and it's not a good picture. Shots are not artistic; editing is clunky; direction of actors is clumsy; story has no direction or emotional investment. I really don't think this is worth the couple hours out of your life.