The writer-director of “Dying of the Light” is Paul Schrader, screenwriter of “Raging Bull.” The star is Nicolas Cage — Raging Tool.
Cage’s typically screamy performance is good for a few unintentional laughs in this plodding spy thriller in which he plays a CIA man with dementia who enlists a partner (Anton Yelchin) to track down a Kenyan terrorist who went off the grid after torturing our hero 22 years ago.
Filmed in part in Bucharest — Cage seems to make a lot of movies there, in much the same way that Michael Bolton often does concerts in Sarasota — the dim, dull effort is so execrable that the director (who was fired while the film was being edited) and its stars have protested the producers’ cut by wearing T-shirts imprinted with...