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Dying of the Light is a 2014 American spy film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nicolas Cage as an ex- CIA agent suffering from dementia who is on a personal mission to track down and kill a terrorist who had tortured him two decades earlier.
Dec 5, 2014 · Dying of the Light: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob. When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
- (12K)
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Paul Schrader
- 2014-12-05
Forced into retirement and terminally ill, a CIA agent gets word that his longtime nemesis has resurfaced, so he sets out on a personal mission to kill him.
- (38)
- Paul Schrader
- R
- Nicolas Cage
A phrase from the poem, "dying of the light", has been used in the titles of George R. R. Martin's sci-fi novel Dying of the Light (1977) and a 2014 installment in Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant series.
If only "Dying of the Light" had broken Schrader's recent close-but-no-cigar streak. This story of a career CIA operative ( Nicolas Cage ) doggedly pursuing a terrorist who once imprisoned and tortured him is not a good movie.
Evan Lake (Cage), a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé (Anton Yelchin) uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir (Alexander Karim), has ...
- 2 min
- 5.8M
- Rotten Tomatoes Trailers
Rescued in the nick of time, the seasoned CIA field agent, Evan Lake, escapes certain death by the hand of his sadistic torturer and Islamic terrorist, Muhammad Banir.
