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Dying of the Light (2014)

R  |   |  Drama, Thriller  |  5 December 2014 (USA)
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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.

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Milton Schultz
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Muhammad Banir
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Michelle Zubarain
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Mbui
Aymen Hamdouchi ...
Aasim
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Ghedi
Robert G. Slade ...
James Clifton
Geff Francis ...
Dr. Clayborne
Silas Carson ...
Dr. Sanjar
Serban Celea ...
Dr. Iulian Cornel
Derek Ezenagu ...
Dr. Wangari
Sharif Sharbek ...
Serban
Tim Silano ...
Mike Warner
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Bob Deacon
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Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy. Written by Lionsgate

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Dying of the Light (2014) had a $5 million budget of which $1 million was Nicolas Cage's salary. The shooting location was mostly Romania with some additional scenes shot in the USA and Australia (doubling for Kenya). The film's independent financier was David Grovic, a Bahamanian businessman whose few prior film credits include the critical failure The Bag Man (2014), which Grovic financed, directed, co-wrote and acted in. See more »

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Evan Lake: Mombassa: The asshole of East Africa.
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Another hot mess from big Nick
9 December 2014 | by See all my reviews

Like most Nicolas Cage flicks, the movie lies somewhere on the boarder line of very good and very bad. This one is leaning on the broader of very very bad.

As much as I love a Nicolas Cage movie, one has to always question if I really want to see Nicolas cage in a Nicolas Cage movie. This movie about a aged CIA agent who gets to go after his supposedly dead arch enemy before he retires. Although, unlike most action movies this guy gets to live a pretty awesome two days before retirement scenario, but it may have been a better movie if we did not have to rely so much on the Nick Cage school of bad acting.

In all fairness, it was not Cage's fault that the story and the film making were very dull, and uninteresting. Just his fault that he did the film for a paycheck and seem to pretty much be phoning it in, along with Anton Yelchin you was using the same phone.

Yeah, see something else of stay home.


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