Is Harsh Times worth watching?
Critic Reviews for Harsh Times It’s an amazing performance, one of the best of the year, with Bale truly making you believe in this over-the-top character. Harsh Times wins in the end by keeping its fingers wrapped tightly around its viewers’ throats.
What is the movie Harsh Times about?
Jim (Christian Bale) is a Gulf War veteran and he believes it is his sworn duty to protect Americans by policing the streets of Los Angeles. His dreams are shattered when he is rejected by the Los Angeles Police Department leaving him and his Mexican paramour in the lurch. Jim is soon offered a position in the Department of Homeland Security leading him to recruit his unemployed best friend Mike (Freddy Rodriquez) to carve a path of devastation across the city.Harsh Times / Film synopsis
What happens at the end of harsh times?
After some hesitation, Mike and Jim say their goodbyes and Mike ends up killing Jim. The film ends with Mike returning to Sylvia. They embrace together as Mike breaks down crying.
Who is streaming harsh times?
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What year did the movie Harsh Times come out?
November 10, 2006 (USA)Harsh Times / Release date
Who wrote Harsh Times?
David AyerHarsh Times / Screenplay
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What was wrong with Jim in Harsh Times?
Jim Davis (Christian Bale) is a former U.S. Army Ranger who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Jim has a Mexican girlfriend, Marta (Tammy Trull), whom he is determined to marry, and bring into the United States to start a life together. With this in mind, Jim returns to Los Angeles, California.
What is your review of the movie Harsh Times?
HARSH TIMES is a portrait of a male-dominated world and inChristian Bale’s fierce performance, Ayer has found the perfect actor. It’s just unfortunate that the screenplay feels like a left-over from an era that has passed.
What can we learn from harsh times?
Harsh Times shows us that fall into delusion and self-loathing to the point where thinking doesn’t factor in at all, action becomes reflex and reflex becomes life. Unfortunately society is not of the shoot first variety like that of a warzone.
How good is Gareth Bale’s performance as Jim in the Crucible?
The writing suggests it but when it comes to showing it, it resorts to quick cuts and flashes of colour to show turmoil in Jim’s mind. It is a rather lazy effect and Bale deserves better as his performance is impressive in balancing the three sides of this man.
What was the funniest scene of Christian Bale’s career?
They ended up with a thirty minute scene of the three of them talking about their lives in-character. According to Christian Bale, it was one of the funniest experiences of his career.