Harsh Times [HD DVD]

Harsh Times [HD DVD]
by David Ayer

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Actor: Chaka Forman, Christian Bale, Eva Longoria, Freddy Rodr?guez, Tammy Trull
Director: David Ayer
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment

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Summary: 4 Stars

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Bleak as its South Central Los Angeles setting, Harsh Times is like a suicidal vortex swallowing men who ought to know better but can't stop their self-destruction. Christian Bale stars as Jim Davis, a stressed-out, former Army Ranger who becomes a very bad influence on his weak-willed buddy, Mike Alvarez (Freddy Rodriguez of Six Feet Under). Together the two meander through streets at night, getting drunk and stoned, finding trouble for its own sake and inviting danger as a ritual of machismo bonding. Mike's wife, Sylvia (Eva Longoria), a lawyer whom Mike, working as a telemarketer, put through school, is repelled by Jim and watches in pain as her spouse chooses a downward spiral over renewal and redemption with her. When Jim's application to join the L.A. police is turned down, he leads Mike into pure anarchy. An impractical change of fortune doesn't help any, and first-time director David Ayer, who wrote the screenplay for Harsh Times years before his script for Training Day, goes to some lengths, dramatically and visually, to convey Jim's unhinged condition. The dreariness of it all, and a sense that Bale has constructed--but not exactly lived in--another in his gallery of lost, misfit souls, makes it hard to connect with this film. Still, it is hard to turn away from these desperate and dangerous characters. --Tom Keogh

Haunted by nightmares from his murderous military past the honorably discharged Jim (Christian Bale) spends his time between his impoverished fiancee in rural Mexico and cruising the streets of east L.A. knocking back beers and smoking joints with his buddy Mike (Freddy Rodriguez). They also pawn a gun run into some trouble with a jealous gangster and fool Mike s girlfriend (Eva Longoria) into thinking he s actually dropping off resumes instead of getting drunk and high with his buddy. Homeland Security meanwhile wants to recruit Jim for some special ops in Central America but first he has to pass a urine test.This is the directorial debut of David Ayer who wrote TRAINING DAY which this film resembles with its smog-saturated cinematography and loving attention to the minutiae of male bonding and "homey codes" in and around L.A.'s inner-city drug culture. One never knows where the story is going or what's around the next corner in this off-center yarn and Ayer captures that uneasy feeling of cruising through a bad part of town in a car with someone who you slowly realize cannot be trusted. Christian Bale delivers as usual a towering performance: growing progressively more disturbed as the film goes on he weeps roars struts shouts and flips out maintaining audience sympathy all the while.System Requirements:Running Time: 116 Mins.Format: DVD HD Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 796019801065 Manufacturer No: 80106

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