RUNNING SCARED / HARSH TIMES / A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

RUNNING SCARED
Lightning-paced action stars Paul Walker as a low-level mobster assigned the task of disposing of a gun that was used to kill a dirty cop during a botched drug deal. Stashing the weapon in his basement, Walker learns that his young son's friend has found it and has used it to shoot his abusive stepfather, a member of the local Russian mafia. When the kid disappears, Walker goes on a frantic search to find the gun, with two crime families and a bunch of crooked cops hot on his trail.

HARSH TIMES
Haunted by nightmares from his murderous military past, the honourably discharged Jim (Christian Bale) spends his time between his impoverished fiancée in rural Mexico and cruising the streets of east L.A., with his buddy Mike (Freddy Rodriguez). They fool Mike's girlfriend (Eva Longoria) into thinking he's actually dropping off resumes. Homeland Security meanwhile wants to recruit Jim for some special ops, but first he has to pass a urine test. This is the directorial debut of David Ayer, who wrote TRAINING DAY. 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.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
In this thrill-packed actioner, small-town diner owner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) finds himself a local hero after he successfully takes down two thugs during an attempted robbery. But his sudden celebrity draws unwanted attention from the outside world, including mobsters Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) and Richie Cusack (William Hurt), who insist that Tom is intricately tied their past. Fogarty begins stalking Stall's wife (Maria Bello) and children, resulting in a bloody standoff in which Tom must protect his family from what is either a case of mistaken identity or a violent past that's finally caught up with him.

Estimated despatch 5-10 days after ordering.