4/2/2021
Harry Melling plays one of a pair of Christian radical siblings plotting to assassinate an anti-religion activist in Harry Michell s dark comedy.
It takes expert stylistic precision to successfully craft a dark comedy about religious fanatics endeavoring to assassinate a celebrated atheist. Filmmaker Harry Michell doesn t quite stick the landing in his sophomore feature, aiming for a complex mixture of comic irreverence and sensitive character study. But he does earn points for creative ambition, and
Say Your Prayers, benefiting from a terrific ensemble, has enough entertainingly startling moments to mark its filmmaker as capable of bigger and better things.
The story is set in the town of Ilkley in the Yorkshire region of England, where Vic (Tom Brooks) and his younger brother Tim (Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley in the
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