Annoying as it is in some ways, is worth seeing for Brody's performance alone.
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06/21/03
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Love the Hard Way (2003)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:12
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4.8/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 6, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Underneath a classic good-girl and street-wise Don Juan romance, LOVE THE HARD WAY reveals itself to be a keen examination of love and emotional dependency amidst the social divergences and... [More]
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Reviews for Love the Hard Way
Brody's performance as Jack is about as good as that which won him the Oscar for The Pianist.
06/20/03
[Brody] can be proud of his work here, and the movie is better than just a pre-stardom curiosity.
06/20/03
Top CriticSuch a volatile presence needs control, and director Peter Sehr doesn't fine-tune either the character or the performance enough to keep it from burning out and self-destructing.
06/20/03
[The story] is often overly simplistic when it is trying hardest for emotional complexity.
06/19/03
Top Critic'While the film's tough to watch, it's also impossible to look away from.'
06/13/03
A movie that can't make up its mind if it wants to be urban poetry or a silly soap opera.
06/13/03
Packed with characters wallowing in self-conscious cool that's as tedious as their anomie.
06/12/03
The pair have little chemistry: Ayanna is a lovely girl with a sweet smile and a fine pout, but she simply can’t match the soul shining from Brody's big brown windows.
06/12/03
Blame the script, which fails to fill out exactly how conflicted these characters are.
06/11/03
The cool, detached German director lacks the kind of warmth needed to bring such characters to life.
06/11/03
Top Critic[W]orth seeing mainly for Brody’s electric performance ...
06/09/03
Top CriticThe film is as cliché-ridden as a rickshaw ride through Central Park, which is to say it tries hard to teach a tired formula new tricks.
06/07/03
Full of bad dialogue, cheap locations, unbelievable situations and a lot of characters who have clearly spent too much time watching B-movies.
06/06/03
Top CriticThe film's premise -- that the savvy student played by Charlotte Ayanna would get involved with this creep -- is a stretch at best.
06/06/03
Desperately overblown 2001 melodrama.
06/06/03
Top CriticWildly uneven romantic drama.
06/05/03
Top CriticThis is Love the Dull Way.
06/05/03
Loses tension (and ultimately credibility) as it wanders through three possible endings before grinding to a halt.
06/05/03
Top CriticBalancing the darkly comic with the tragically lurid is a tough trick; on a good day Jim Thompson could get the balance right, but Sehr simply seems to be cross-cutting between two entirely different movies.
06/05/03
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