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A Prayer for the Dying [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Mickey Rourke
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis, Christopher Fulford
  • Directors: Mike Hodges
  • Writers: Edmund Ward
  • Producers: Christabel Albery, Peter Snell, Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Feb 2003
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007EFIJ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,233 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars QUALITY MOVIE, 25 Oct 2003
By Mo Hoyle (Ripon, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Prayer For The Dying [VHS] [1987] (VHS Tape)
Simply great. Intrigue, suspense and with Bob Hoskins as ex SAS and now a vicar. Sammy Davis is great and Mickey Rourke and Liam Neeson hit it off and show their talents. Should have been bigger at the box office. Well worth a watch and you will add it to your collection. If on DVD buy it!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "I'll see ya in hell Jack"., 23 Nov 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Ben Dinsdale " There's no reason for killing or dying anymore. What's more, there's no reason for living!"
Anna: "That's a terrible thing to say!"


A Prayer For The Dying features what might very well be the most effective opening scene in all of cinema. Practically nothing is said, yet as the viewer you know exactly what is happening. It perfectly sets up the rest of the film. What happens? A ragged band of IRA punks in Northern Ireland have a bomb rigged to go off when some British Army jeeps drive by on patrol. Unexpectedly, and unfortunately, a school bus carrying about a dozen 10-year-old girls passes the army vehicles. Kaboom. Both Rourke and his best friend Docherty (Liam Neeson) are disgusted by their misstep.

I picked up "A Prayer for the Dying" in a charity shop recently. It was a great purchase as I have always been a fan of Rourke until he decided to commit professional suicide with garbage like Wild Orchid. Rourke is one of the most underrated actors in the business, or at least he was until he took up professional boxing in 1990 and had his beautiful face re-arranged in the ring.

Upon viewing this Mike Hodge (Get Carter) film I enjoyed it from start to finish as Rourke gives an absolutly moving performance as an hit man wanting to give up his evil ways. I know that that has been used as a plot for a hundred movies, but this is easily one of the better of those films.

Bob Hoskins is competent as Fr DaCosta. Alan Bates could read the phone book and I'd enjoy his work. This 1987 movie is deeply atmospheric, yet unpretentious, it is one of those all too rare films in which the characters are truly believable. Set in mid eighties London amidst the paranoia of the troubles in Northern Ireland; the traumatised former terrorist attempts to escape his violent lifestyle, hindered by a blackmailing local gangster.

"I'll see you in Hell Jack."
8/10.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Prayer for the dying, 16 May 2005
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This review is from: A Prayer For The Dying [VHS] [1987] (VHS Tape)
An excellent film. Superb acting from Mickey Rourke and supporting cast. Alan Bates is brilliant as the gangster who uses a Funeral Parlour as his cover. Thoroughly watchable from beginning to end and the music at the end is lovely.
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