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It's true that Pierce's "altruistic" impulse is not on par with Travis Bickle's impulse to shave his head and assassinate a presidential candidate, but Schrader and Scorsese don't view his actions with any irony.
As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.
For much of the film, you can't decide whether the murder plot is a product of Wade's escalating paranoia or if Schrader is just inept at shaping a whodunit.
Scorsese and Schrader are at their most inspired in the raucous theater of the emergency room, in which patients on stretchers scream at one another to shut up, and an admitting nurse (played by Schrader's wife, the brilliant Mary Beth Hurt) takes pains to let the drunks and addicts and failed suicides know just how much they're imposing on her.
Nick Nolte's outstanding acting and Paul Schrader's masterful directing earn this film uniformly high marks from critics.