mickey rourke be enjoy a renaissance at the moment . and fair play to him . i always like his image and his act ability in such fare a angel heart and johnny handsome . you know what you be go to get with rourke mean and moody and dirty . but this film give you much more and you do not want most of it . first and foremost this whole thing just doesn not make sense . rourke be a hardened ira killer who after kill a bus load of schoolchildren flees ireland for london . he be on the run from the cop and from his own army comrade . he have also vow to never kill again . it look like the bus full of kid finally do it for him . however and when he get to london he be track down by a local mobster ( bat look like his eyebrow and hair come straight off a burton dummy ) to kill his main competitor in turn for £50 and 000 and a boat trip to the u . rourke reluctantly agree to do it but be see by a priest ( hoskins ) and confess the crime to him in the confessional in order to keep the priest mouth shut . he figure it be well than kill him . a wealth of thing arise here which just do not add up represent 1. why pick rourke to off your competition . a be illustrate by a scene whereby an employee be pin to a wall by a couple of heavy with what look like awl these london guy be tough enough anyway to do their own killing . 2. not only that but the mobster get a guy to follow rourke and witness the kill with his own eye . why do not that guy simply kill the competitor and save all the hassle of deal with rourke . 3. hoskins see the murder take place and the police let him go off without protection and i may add to take confession . no way . 4. rourke hang around the church ( right next to where he carry out the murder ) immediately after the crime take place to go to confession . why aren not the cop check the place out . 5. rourke hang around the church and hoskin blind niece in particular and for day afterwards without anybody bother him . what . he on the run and he stay put by the very place where he commit another murder . stupid . 6. the cop actually meet rourke in the church fix the organ and have no idea who he be . do they not know he be on the run for the school bus bomb . they do not even check up on him . 7. why get rourke to kill for you and and then tell him to wait around for a few day to get on the boat . you would think you would want to get rid of him immediately . or kill him . one or the other . 8. why do bat brother suddenly decide to rape the blind niece in the midst of all the wait . could he not restrain himself for a few day . at least until rourke have be safely off to the state . ridiculous . 9. rourke suddenly have inner turmoil after all his year of kill and win over the blind niece immediately even after she know he be a killer and she still love him . again utterly ludicrous . and besides she fall in love with him in record time a few day . 10. the whole bomb thing at the end be just plain silly from bates point of view . 11. thing happen in part of this film that just do not make sense or be simply in there to help the storyline ( and i say that in jest ) along . bates house rourke in a whorehouse until the boat be ready to sail and rourke suddenly display a moral high ground to respect the whore in the house but yet will bed a blind girl . 12. rourke ask a henchman on the boat where bates be and the henchman practically spurt out the entire movement of his bos in less than 10 second . it be embarrass the guy be tell rourke far more than he even ask . 13. hoskin priest be an ex army guy and we see him beat up three henchman behind a pub . totally uncalled for and yet another cringe worthy scene . i be gon na stop there at unlucky 13 without mention rourke hair ( so falsely red it be laughable ) and his accent ( which to be fair be not too bad sometimes but deteriorate to a barely hear mumble at other time ) and his clothes and walk and look to the heaven etc . nor will i mention the music and the choppy editing style . oooppps i have just mention them . overall a disaster of a film with some obvious religious imagery throw in ( rourke on the cross and preach from a pulpit ) which would embarrass a first year film student never mind a top star and director . 4/10 .