A Prayer For The Dying
by Mike Hodges
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Actor: Alan Bates, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Fulford, Mickey Rourke, Sammi DavisDirector: Mike Hodges
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of A Prayer For The Dying
Movie Review: I've seen better
Summary: 3 Stars
Ummm, you people who think Mickey Rourke (Martin Fallon) was giving a great performance really need to watch more movies. Rourke's accent was almost as funny as Richard Gere's in "The Jackal." He was okay, but not great.
Maybe this was a good movie in the 80's for that genre, but it was very slow, predictable and filled with stereotypical characterizations of cops and bad guys. Oh, the bad guys were especially terrible in this one (Alan Bates as Jack Meehan). Something like New York cops and bad guys; except Irish. The bumbling and fumbling cops weren't any better.
Maybe it's because I like American-Made films better. Granted, that could be the problem with my somewhat biased opinion. But we all know that there have been countless American flops the past years.
Then again, I've always admired Liam Neeson's (Liam Docherty) acting in any movie (A small part in this one, compared to Rourke's)- including "Next Of Kin," just two years after this one. Bob Hoskins (Father Da Costa) on the other hand, has never impressed me with his acting, and was especially terrible in "Enemy At The Gates" - (2001) as Nikita Kruschev; and in "Outlaw" - (2007) as inside police contact Walter Lewis.
I'm still going to give it three stars for trying, and because there actually were parts I enjoyed once they picked up the pace (somewhat). Also, because when I think about it, so many American film makers could and have done worse (read "HITMAN" - Timothy Olyphant 2007).
Summary of A Prayer For The Dying
Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 Weeks) gives "his finest performance to date" (L.A. Weekly) in this hair-trigger action-thriller co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates), Alan Bates (The Sum of All Fears) and Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode I). A gritty tale of retribution and redemption, A Prayer for the Dying has "a brisk style and an edgy rhythm" (The New York Times) that will keep your heart racing in suspense until the final frame! Tormented IRA revolutionary Martin Fallon (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 ruthless mobster (Bates). As the vicious world he's trying to escape closes in on him, Fallon's only hope for salvation may be the man he's been ordered to kill.Action & Adventure DVD Video
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