Um argumento razoável com uma grande interpretação de Bale.

This is the kind of movie I categorize as "street-crime-drama-action". It follows two adult friends who grew up together in the bad area of LA. One guy is a regular guy looking for a job, and the other guy is former army ranger who is looking to work in law enforcement. over the course of the movie they meet up with old friends, steal, lie, commit crimes, etc... the army ranger friend gets a little out of hand and things get out of control.The final scenes are VERY dramatic and intense, I don't want to spoil it for you but the entire movie is worth watching so you can see the build up at the end. I felt bad for everyone.Very good acting, good cinematography, good writing and script.Harsh Times is the kind of movie you watch late at night while your chilling with your bros. Perfect movie for that. bottom line is its a FUN movie to watch. I was very entertained. They need to make more movies like this.

Needless, out of place violence and swearing (with blasphemy) that sounds like it's present just to be edgy and shocking. Terrible acting. Actors do not sync up with the role they're supposed to convince the audience that they fill.A disgraceful film that stereotypes ex-army men who have PTSD in a negative light.

Christian Bale is an actor who has built his career on playing disturbed and dysfunctional characters in the movies he has been in, until of course when he became the heroic caped crusader Batman. Unfortunately this movie from back in 2005 was one of the dysfunctional and disturbed character movies, and even more unfortunately it is centered on a U.S. military veteran who seems to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing by having been a member of the greatest fighting force on the planet. As a combat veteran who served two years in South Vietnam (1967 and 1968) with the Big Red One (1st Infantry Division) of the U.S. Army I was always critical of and resentful of the portrayal in movies of back then that always highlighted the aberrational combat veteran who came back to the United States and did great misdeeds. This movie follows in that sick tradition of cutting down the U.S. Military by showing combat veterans in the worst light. This movie sucks, the portrayal of Middle East conflict war veterans sucks and I give this movie an almost negative 1 because this soldier (as portrayed by Bale) did not learn discipline in the service and had no respect for others, which is what the U.S. Military teaches. Remember this folks, we are the good guys. We are the ones who have saved the world. But of course Hollywood doesn't want to highlight how good we are and were, because that would be politically incorrect in this Obama world we live in. Don't bother with this pure piece of Hollywood junk! StocktonRob