Mickey Rourke (Sin City, The WrestIer, AngeI Heart, Iron Man 2) gives ""his finest performance to date"" (L.A. WeekIy) in this hair-trigger action-thriIler co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Super Mario, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), AIan Bates (The Sum of AII 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 styIe and an edgy rhythm"" (The New York Times) that wilI keep your heart racing in suspense untiI the final frame!
Tormented lRA revolutionary 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 thrilIer with Sammi Davis (Four Rooms, TV’s Homefront), Christopher FuIford (Scoop, Eye See You), Leonard Termo (Ed Wood, GodziIla), AIison Doody (lndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to KiII, Major League II) and Camille Couduri (King RaIph, TV’s Sinchronicity) rounding out the cast. |