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I love this movie so much

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Dying of the Light follows veteran, decorated CIA agent Evan Lake (Cage) who receives intel that Muhammad Banir (Alexader Karim), a former nemesis and terrorist, long believed to be dead, may actually still be alive. The former field agent, who has been grudgingly stuck behind a desk for six years, sees this information as a ticket to finally put away the man who tortured him, and get back into action. Banir is suffering from a rare blood disease that might kill him before he faces justice, while Lake has been showing signs of dementia.Even worse, the CIA doesn't seem all that compelled to go after Banir, or convinced that he's even still alive. So, along with eager and supportive younger agent Milton Schultz (Anton Yelchin), Lake heads overseas for the proverbial "one last job," to find Banir and take him out, before his disease consumes his brain.Dying of the Light is not an action film as the trailer may depicts. But is more of a CIA drama/thriller but with no thrills. Cage's character is pronounced to have mental problems, but the main problem with this film is that they don't give his character much to worth with. His character is obviously troubled throughout, and it is clear but there isn't any typical "Cage outbursts" scenes which would provide unintentional hilarity, and a little more excitement. For one, the film takes itself too serious for the kind of genre it is which makes it much less entertaining.

Dying of the Light featuring Nicolas Cage, well that's the reason I chose to watch the movie. I'm used to seeing Nicolas Cage typically play himself in every film and I'm typically sure of what to expect; so I didn't feel that watching this movie could be any different. Now Dying of the Light had a great story idea and the acting for the most part was sort of fair, not great. The issue with this film is it seemed to not ever get to what it was aiming for. It's not a bad movie, though it is one of those films that is hard to hold your attention.Dying of the Light did have some really good potential it just didn't come through, great attempt.

I think this movie is being rated a bit lower than it should be. I think that's because some reviewers are comparing it to the movie it could have been, rather than rating it as the movie that it was. As it was, it was decidedly so-so. Easily the only genuinely good thing about it was Cage's acting. I'm sure he took the part specifically as a welcomed opportunity to get out of the action rut. He did a wonderful job in the role. Yelchun and Karim did okay with what they had to work with. Irene Jacob's talents were never give a chance, but she still managed to bring enough to the table (literally) to make you wish they had been.What is bad is the pain of seeing what it could have been, but was not. As you can see from the other reviews, it is painfully clear that someone had a really good idea for a movie, and that Schrader failed miserably to bring to life. Maybe it wasn't his idea. I'm pretty sure some decent editing could have made room for another 30 minutes or so; had the additional time been used to add some depth to the story, that would have gone along way to improve the quality of the movie per se, although still no guarantees it would still have been the movie it could have been. Looking over Schrader's filmography, I think he would be wise to give up trying to both direct and write the same film.I will add that I had to laugh at one reviewer (and wouldn't be surprised if there are more I didn't see), who predicted this movie would irrevocably damage Cage's career. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that one in the past 25 years! Something about Cage (much like Costner) seems to attract a jealous fringe that loves to forecast doom at every turn. For the record, as I write this, he has 5 films in post-production, 2 just completed, 1 filming, and 1 recently announced. This doesn't include National Treasure 3, where his return to the role of Ben Gates is still at the "rumored" stage.Every actor should have such a doomed career, lol.

I've used this site for nearly 2 decades. Yet, this is the first time I have felt compelled to sign up or comment. Nicholas Cage's performances was.. Nicholas Cage. As expected. He did well.The movie? Thought provoking, and I thought the contrast of them both having diseases was intriguing. I thought the conclusion was interesting. Would have liked to see the bad guy killed by Cage, but I think it's due to the fact that he realized they were both gone anyway.What I find truly disgusting, is that this movie had poor reviews. I'm wondering if people's expectations of movies has gone to total crap. While I didn't find this the most awesome movie I've ever seen, I also surely didn't think it was a bad movie. I have often found that critic reviews are so harsh they can hardly be trusted at all. But, when viewers find a movie that has not at all shown that it is a lemon, call it a lemon, I'm really wondering what has happened to us.