Dying of the Light

  • 2014


MOVIE IS compulsive degenerative frenetic conventional ludicrous
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9 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 4
Negative reviews 25
Average Rating 2.1/5
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And, for what its worth, Dying Of The Light sure looks like a severely compromised production, with flashbacks and montages that appear suspiciously t .. Av Club
2.5
The inevitable final man to man struggle verges on Zucker Abrams Zucker style absurdity. Rogerebert
2.0
What remains is not really worthy of a filmmaker of Schraders reputation. Common Sense Media
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In these moments, you can sense the film struggling to articulate, through Lakes words, a sense of an America that has lost its way and fatally compro .. Variety
0.6
This scene, ludicrous on a literal minded level, is never allowed to reach a transcendent B movie climax.
2.0
It isnt hard to see the effect a tangled production history has had on Dying Of The Light, which arrives on screen as a mostly conventional and mostly .. Screen Daily
3.5
Paul Schrader is credited as the writer and director of Dying of the Light, but that authorial attribution comes with an asterisk: The cut reaching th .. The New York Times
2.3
Dying has plenty of action, Schrader style violence and great Cage moments, but the movie is an oddity in its own right. Paste Magazine
1.5
If Dying of the Light becomes veteran writer director Paul Schraders last film the Taxi Driver screenwriter recently announced hes devoting his energi ..
2.0
But Cage, to his credit, burrows into the character not as much as in the recent indie Joe, a recent high point for him, but enough so that the sporad .. Ny Daily News
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It looks like the distributor tried to take a character driven movie and desperately reshape it into a thriller, but no amount of frenetic editing and .. JoBlo
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View the feature with this protest in mind, and yes, one can see where Schraders ideas remain and where the Hollywood B movie mindset takes over. Blu Ray
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Dying of the Light, a spy thriller written and directed by Paul Schrader, arrives heralded by an ominous rumble of controversy.Back in October, Schrad .. The Times
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However, like all Schrader films, it also has plenty of provocative and original moments that hint at the movie it might have been. Independent
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It lumbers through its predictable thriller paces, name checking cynicism, despair and paranoia without actually evoking them. Film Journal International ..
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Its hard to imagine that the directors approved version would have been that special, given the evidence of this inert affair, in which even Cages act .. The Guardian
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The finished film is a hobbled orphan, disowned by its director and often wheezing when it should be raging. The Guardian
1.0
That isnt to say, however, that Dying of the Light represents the best opportunity to adjust the lens and turn the focus back to the work.The film is .. Npr
2.0
On paper, spy thriller Dying of the Light is one of his more promising recent ventures. Flim List
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And so, to the end result a film that seems almost ashamed of its best ideas. Eye For Film
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This makes Dying of the Light an especially frustrating experience its a film that clearly shows the edges of something like a deeply subversive genre .. The Film Stage
3.0
Endless scenes of exposition over explain the unnecessary details of whats required to find the terrorist, and its made more banal as its never much m .. Blogs Indie Wire
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Maybe Schraders preferred version wouldnt have been a better movie, but at least it might have matched the oddball intensity of its lead performance. Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
If executed in the intended way, Dying of the Light could have been an accomplished exploitation of human emotions. Hey U Guys
2.0
What is ultimately being released reeks of the studios contempt towards modern audiences, for its clearly been assembled as a box ticking exercise to .. Digital Spy
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Trimmed within an inch of its life to a frail 94 minutes, however, Dying Of The Light is left with nothing but the faintest echoes of whatever ideas m .. The Dissolve
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But if nothing else Dying serves as one more all too familiar tale of the little respect afforded major American filmmakers at the studio and indie le .. Film Comment
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But it also should be placed within a cycle of contemporary commercial films casting aspersions on the moral superiority of both American life and cap .. Movie Mezzanine
2.5
It is a reasonably serviceable thriller with a bit of style here and there. Theepoch Times
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Im not making fun of degenerative diseases when I say they are very out of place in a spy thriller. Movie Chambers
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There are some great ideas here, and the film as a whole does make for cheerfully compulsive viewing. Little White Lies



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