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.

Harsh Times is an hour-by-hour diary of two crazy, unreliable, irresponsible dudes trying to find a way to fit into the same society they hate, facing one hurdle after another until they appear to butcher half of Los Angeles.

A crazy little film, modest in its scope but grand in its ambition. It paints it's story in loud primary colors, with intense pressure cooker characterizations.