Sameir Ali
Musician Jimmy Cliff plays the lead role. He is coming to the new town. He is in search of a job. Food-less and homeless, he wanders around in search of a job. Finally, he comes to a preacher. He takes up the job as a mechanic. He meets a young girl there and falls in love.The movie is a cult entertainer. There are so many mistakes of beauty. Music and violence leads the movie a entertaining. The language may be little hard for normal audience, in that case better to watch with sub titles."You Can Get It If You Really Want..." this should be in your minds after watching the film.#KiduMovie
atunik
I saw this movie in the theater, shortly after its release. This is still a good movie with a great seminal reggae soundtrack, but the original revolutionary message of the movie has been hacked out and distorted, and the hero has been turned into an unsympathetic criminal. Scenes are missing and some altered, and the feeling of the film has gone from Robin Hood (protector of the poor and driven to violence by severe oppression) to Bonnie and Clyde (natural born criminals with no regard for human life). It has also been sanitized of some drug-positive content (note that there is a religious sanctity to marijuana in Jamaica, and this alteration is therefore especially offensive - how would you feel if a movie tangentially about Catholicism substituted milk for wine in the Eucharist, or refused to show the ritual at all?).I am appalled.
bernie-122
"The Harder They Come, 12 February 2005 Author: Bored2Tears from United States This movie might be a little too complex for simple minds like the review I just saw above..." This idiot had the temerity to complain about somebody else's review, as well as rubbishing nearly everyone else for their lack of savvy regarding Jamaican culture and Reggae music.This jerk, who can't even spell, is the one who should be barred from owning a computer, if this is all he can manage to do with it.This is an awesome film; it is also very flawed, but the flaws don't necessarily detract from it. It is a very raw look at a very real slice of life in the Caribbean. If you like Reggae, then there's something wrong with you if you haven't already seen this.If you don't like Reggae, and/or you don't want to strain your ears for 100 minutes trying to follow the dialog, then don't bother with this.Everyone else will most definitely get something out of this amazing film.
Bucs1960
Back in the day it seemed that everybody had the soundtrack to this film but very few had seen it. As years went on, THTC begin to gain a cult status and became more readily available. It is probably one of the few movies with spoken English that is sub-titled. The patois which was created by the Rastafarians to replace Jamaican English (considered the language of slaves) is very difficult to understand, so the sub-titled version is recommended.The film stars the dynamic Jimmy Cliff as the "rude boy" Ivan who gets on the wrong side of a record producer who only wants to pay him a pittance for the song he has recorded. Things go from bad to worse and Ivan kills a cop, among others. Then the song becomes a hit and Ivan becomes a folk hero, running from the police. The ending is a little bit of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" as Ivan faces down his many pursuers for one last shoot out.This is not the Jamaica that we see in travel brochures but the real thing......poverty stricken and unlovely; however it has a terrible beauty of its own. Of course, the music is something you dream about, if you are a lover of reggae, ska and rocksteady. Nobody does it like Jimmy Cliff. He is simply phenomenal. Don't miss it!!!
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