Good concept, poorly executed.

Best movie ever!

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This film is more interesting in the story of it's release than the film itself, it's director Paul Schrader (writer of such classics as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver), producer Nicolas Winding Refn and stars Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin campaigned against its very release due to what they felt was a severe case of studio interference in their product. The story is unbelievable, Cage with terminal dementia hunts down the bloke who tortured him who also is dying, I think Nicholas Cage over acts so in this film it is Nicholas Cage as the dying CIA agent, mind you the laugh out loud moments is near the end when he turns his car into the lorry to kill himself, obviously the poor trucker driving back to see his wife and kids does not matter being African does not matter as only American life's count.

I am always up for a good movie about the caustic incompetence agency. This one offered a different angle, being more about a man suffering an aggressive brain degeneration disease and wanting desperately to avenge his torture from twenty-two years before. One must ask why it took him twenty-two years to develop what overnight becomes an idée fixe, but I guess that was the point of his having this particular brain disease, which causes alterations in judgment and hypersensitivity and overreaction. Nicolas Cage plays the CIA agent undergoing rapid brain degeneration, and he is pretty convincing. How he finds his aggressor is quite a bit less so. It's another case where only through a major contrivance on the part of the script writer is there even a story here to portray. When he finally finds himself in a room with the man who tortured him, Cage suddenly changes his mind—apparently also because of his brain disease! But then when a group of goons come after him and end up harming his friend, the former CIA agent suddenly realizes that he must do what he came to do and goes back to kill the guy, which is only accomplished after a bloody and ugly contest between the two. So, yes, there's some action here, but this production doesn't come close to the Bourne trilogy.

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'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.