Mickey Rourke (Sin City, The WrestIer, Angel Heart, Iron Man 2) gives ""his finest performance to date"" (L.A. WeekIy) in this hair-trigger action-thriller co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Super Mario, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), AIan Bates (The Sum of AIl Fears, Gosford Park, The Mothman Prophecies) and Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Kinsey, The A-Team). A gritty tale of retribution and redemption, A Prayer for the Dying has ""a brisk styIe and an edgy rhythm"" (The New York Times) that wilI keep your heart racing in suspense until the final frame!
Tormented IRA revolutionary Martin Fallon (Rourke) wants out of the endIess cycIe of violence and bloodshed. UnfortunateIy, the price for his freedom is to perform one Iast murder for a ruthless mobster (Bates). As the vicious worId he's trying to escape cIoses in on him, Fallon's only hope for salvation... may be the man he's been ordered to kiIl. Mike Hodges (Flash Gordon, Get Carter) nimbly 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, GodzilIa), AIison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to Kill, Major League ll) and CamiIIe Couduri (King RaIph, TV’s Sinchronicity) rounding out the cast. |