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The movie deals honestly with violence, with terrorism, with the religious question and with human emotions. With four strikes like that against it, no wonder it never got a proper release in this country.
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50% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 53% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Irish Republican Army member Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) rigs a bomb to destroy a British army convoy, but the plan goes wrong when...
- (12)
- Mike Hodges
- R
- Mickey Rourke
Sep 11, 1987 · A Prayer for the Dying: Directed by Mike Hodges. With Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis. Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece.
- (5.7K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Mike Hodges
- 1987-09-11
A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the 1973 Jack Higgins novel of the same name.
A Prayer For The Dying is a melodramatic romantic action thriller following IRA assassin Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke), a man with a brutal path in life whose long buried conscience surfaces after an explosives mission goes awry, resulting in the death of schoolchildren aboard a bus.
It is almost inexplicable how dull and sodden a melodrama A Prayer for the Dying -- about an IRA terrorist in London -- manages to be. Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 5, 2019
A character study set in the shadow of the Irish Troubles, A Prayer For The Dying offers a plethora of moral dilemmas but is hampered by choppy momentum. In Northern Ireland an Irish Republican Army unit including Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) and Liam Docherty (Liam Neeson) mistakenly blows up a bus full of school girls.
