FilmSnobReviews

Title: Dying of the Light
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

What It Is: Evan Lake (Cage) is a CIA operative, one whose been through the ringer. 20 years ago he fell victim to a hostage situation which caused damage to him physically but more so mentally. And the man behind it, who supposedly died during his extraction might be alive and his colleague Milton (Yelchin) has evidence of that to be true. Now Evan will go to any length to find this man. Trouble is he’ll have to cope with his deteriorating mental health along the way as he hunts for the man that changed his life forever.

What We Think: Oh boy! Nick Cage at this point is just doing whatever script comes across his desk. I don’t think he read them, he just sees it’ll pay and does it. And about that his performance is absolutely horrid. He seems to be overacting every step of the way. Yelchin really really tries to reign in Cage but it’s all for naught as Cage is an unstoppable orce of comical “acting”. I really wish he’d go back to you know… trying. Another phoned in performance of horrendous dialogue sink what already was a run of the mill CIA thriller of an agent avanging a previous event.

Our Grade: F, Even being direct to DVD no one should spend money on this hopeless thriller devoid of surprise or tension. It’s one of the worst movies I’ve had the displeasure of sitting through, nd I hope Cage can get his mojo back but I fear the worst for him. Yelchin should be able to bounch back from his first real misstep in 2014. After two indie flick the pretty good Rudderless and fantastic Only Lovers Left Alive this guy is probably just going to keep killing it.