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Critic Alan Morrison
rated 6

As a troubled Gulf War vet he is struggling to make distinctions between the everyday world and the battlefield, where murder is acceptable. Physically and mentally, Bale is astonishing...

Read full review at Empire
Critic Noel Murray
rated 6

Ayer has a good sense of pace, but he doesn't have much control over Harsh Times' tone, which evolves too quickly into a lurid, forced, pulp pretender...

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Cast & Crew

David Ayer
Director
David Ayer
Writer
J.K. Simmons
As Agent Richards
Noel Gugliemi
As Flaco
Terry Crews
As Darrell
Christian Bale
As Jim Luther Davis
Eva Longoria
As Sylvia

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Jim Davis, a former Army Ranger struggling with PTSD, tries to find a job with the LAPD while his best friend Mike gets pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find employment. As Jim's hopes for a law enforcement career fade, he and Mike succumb to their old criminal habits, cruising the dangerous streets of South Central Los Angeles, where gangs, drugs, and violence reign. Their reunion with their anarchic past spirals out of control, putting their lives and the American Dream they've been chasing at risk. Can they break free from their toxic past and find a chance at redemption, or will they succumb to the harsh realities of life in the city's underbelly?

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Harsh Times include The Contract, Walking Tall: Lone Justice, The Way of the Gun, The Line, Harry Brown, 24: Redemption (Extended Edition).

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Harsh Times was released in theaters on November 10, 2006.