BRUTAL

Merciless

• Awfully cruel

• Beastly

• Cruel, very dry Pacino

• Exhausting

• Hard to endure

• Harsh

• Harsh-plus

• Inhuman

• Inhumanly cruel

• Like a Buffalo winter, per reputation

• Monstrous

• Painful, as honesty

• Pulling no punches

• Punishingly difficult

• Really, really tough

• Savage

• Taxing

• Tough

• Truly rough, as a test

• Unrelenting

• Very harsh

• Vicious