'Out of the Furnace' Trailer Shows Christian Bale's Gritty Side

Things get dicey pretty quickly in Out of the Furnace's first official trailer, which was released Thursday by the film's distributor, Relativity.

Shedding the role of the Dark Knight and Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale returns to the big-screen for a role that still seeks to do good — but with less gadgets and more grit. Bale plays Russell, a Rust Belt blue-collar worker who cares for his terminally ill father

The film follows Russell and his brother Rodney (Casey Affleck), who returns home from active duty in Iraq, but quickly gets snatched up in one of the worst crime rings in the Northeast. As the police fail to crack Rodney's mysterious disappearance, Russell puts his life on the line to seek justice for his brother.