There is a professional assassin named Lucas hired to kill a young woman called Ella. On the night Elly is killed, Lucas finds himself retreating, making him move in a twisted game of cat and mouse. The lives of Lucas and Ela seem to be in danger, and they must form an uneasy alliance in order to escape. In the end, it seems that their only hope for survival throughout Europe is to reveal the murder of her family.
The Hunter's Prayer is too familiar and formulaic to work in any significant or even trivial way, but it's so inconsequential that it's impossible to fault the movie too much.
The transparent goal of this frenetic cat-and-mouse thriller is to keep the action moving so viewers don't pause to contemplate the narrative incoherence behind it.
Worthington, ostensibly an old hand by now at cut-rate thrillers, pulls off the ignominious trick of seeming as if he were a bouncer randomly cast in his first movie.
Marks must be given for how this is a character-driven project. But despite the attempt to make each person fully rounded, none of it feels fresh or engaging.
