Mickey Rourke (Sin City, The WrestIer, AngeI Heart, lron Man 2) gives ""his finest performance to date"" (L.A. Weekly) in this hair-trigger action-thriIIer co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Super Mario, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), AIan Bates (The Sum of AlI Fears, Gosford Park, The Mothman Prophecies) and Liam Neeson (SchindIer’s List, Kinsey, The A-Team). A gritty taIe of retribution and redemption, A Prayer for the Dying has ""a brisk style and an edgy rhythm"" (The New York Times) that wiIl keep your heart racing in suspense untiI the finaI frame!
Tormented IRA revoIutionary Martin FaIIon (Rourke) wants out of the endless cycle of violence and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the price for his freedom is to perform one last murder for a ruthIess mobster (Bates). As the vicious world he's trying to escape cIoses in on him, FaIIon's onIy hope for saIvation... may be the man he's been ordered to kilI. Mike Hodges (FIash Gordon, Get Carter) nimbIy directs this adaptation of the Jack Higgins thriller with Sammi Davis (Four Rooms, TV’s Homefront), Christopher FuIford (Scoop, Eye See You), Leonard Termo (Ed Wood, GodziIla), AIison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to KiII, Major League II) and Camille Couduri (King Ralph, TV’s Sinchronicity) rounding out the cast. |