A Prayer for the Dying

Very little here we haven't seen before in this adaptation of the Jack Higgins novel but it is made interesting by a fine all-star cast. In fact, the film is interesting as we get to see Mickey Rourke work with U.K. veterans such as Liam Neeson, Alan Bates. Anthony Head (whose character is oddly enough named Rupert!) and the great Bob Hoskins who prays the priest with a past. The past......this is what A PRAYER FOR THE DYING is all about...one's past and how we can never truly escape it....a role Rourke is a master of and here he is no different.