A ludicrous movie about a subject that deserves more serious treatment.

It's almost inexplicable how dull and sodden a melodrama "A Prayer for the Dying" -- about an IRA terrorist in London -- manages to be.

So much of what’s wrong with it can be found in both the casting and the major narrative turns.

Mickey Rourke's performance is key in buying the story, whose gestures and look are prolonged in his peculiar Irish intonation and accent. [Full Review in Spanish]