
Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.... (Full plot summary below)
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Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Leave your thoughts about Dying of the Light.
| Film Journal InternationalMaitland McDonaghWhatever Dying of the Light was intended to be, the end result is feature-length sleeping pill with car chases. |
| Film School RejectsJack GirouxDespite all the glaring issues, there's a handful of moments that show signs of life and of a superior film. |
| Movie MezzanineJake MulliganSchrader's direction, alternatively, often gives in to the standard-issue cop-movie nature of his screenplay. |
| NPRTomas HachardThe rushed and often inchoate execution means there's little in the film that gets the benefit of more than a moment's reflection. |
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersNot much good to say except "Cage, Cage against the dying of the light." Apologies to Dylan Thomas. |
| IndiewireEric KohnWhile its bleak assessment of American intelligence operatives imbues the story with some modicum of topicality, the specifics never keep pace. The movie becomes a bland action-drama lacking the sophistication to deal with its weightier themes. As a promising endeavor hacked to pieces, the movie's fate mirrors its anti-hero's own failed ambition. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsThere are some great ideas here, and the film as a whole does make for cheerfully compulsive viewing. |
| HeyUGuysJon Lyusdespite all the formulaic flaws and re-workings of Schrader's original artistic vision, Cage steals the show. |
| The Film StagePeter LabuzaIt's a film full of Cage at his wide-eyed, extreme intensity, but many of the scenes seem to lose the process that made them. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfAfter the wretchedness of Schrader's last picture, 2013's The Canyons, it surprises me that anyone would want to see what the helmer originally had in mind for this terrorist thriller/meditation on mortality. |