Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Bene Cumb Pusher II gives a realistic overview of destructive habits and approaches of thieves and addicts in the Danish capital. Although life is full of criminal activities, apathy and sometimes vain hopes, there are also some comic moments (child-related, above all) not letting the plot plunge into sadness and depression... There are some twists and turns, but the very end could have been with a different twist than shown.The cast is strong as well, especially Mads Mikkelsen (the same guy who played in Jagten last year and currently in Hannibal, can you imagine that?) as well as Leif Sylvester. Women performers are realistic as well, but their characters are somewhat alike, and viewers might have ambivalent feelings towards them.The film can easily be an educative and warning creation for teens/youngsters: drug-related life is not glamorous, there are consequences, even if you can wriggle out for the police...

dragokin After watching Pusher, there aren't many things left to be said. Or are there?Pusher II follows Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) after his release from prison. He tries to get a grip on reality, however, the old ways have their appeal and he slips back into his old lifestyle. It is left open whether Tony is simply confused or whether he has some permanent brain damage after being beaten by Frank (Kim Bodnia) in the first part. In any case, he proceeds with his ridiculous "Respect" tattoo on the back of his head.Tony discovers he has a child. The gangster lifestyle is depicted again with out any glamor leaving Tony to think about more than his own future.

lastliberal I first saw Mads Mikkelsen in Flame and Citron, where he played Citron. I wasn't real impressed with the film, and I wasn't impressed when I saw him again in Pusher. He comes into his own here, as a man just out of prison trying to impress his gangster father. At the same time, he finds out he fathered a child, and now must learn how to be a daddy.I thought Tonny (Mikkelsen) was beat to death in Pusher. Apparently not, but he did sustain some brain damage.Frank (Kim Bodnia) and Vic (Laura Drasbæk) from Pusher would have made this film more interesting, but Mikkelson did turn in a good, if slow performance.

Paolo A. Gardinali Dedicated to Hubert Selby Jr., Pusher II moves in the familiar territory of the New York writer, night scenes populated by strippers, drug addicts and hopeless petty criminals. Unlike Last Stop Brooklyn, and the first movie in the trilogy, Pusher ends on a high, pun not intended, with a glimmer of hope to illuminate the Scandinavian night that most of this movie seems to embrace.Eight years have gone by since Frank from Pusher broke Tonny's head with a baseball bat. Frank is now gone, and Tonny, the eternal screwup, seeks criminal success working for the big boss himself: his father. What he finds of course is deceit, empty violence, cocaine-fueled failures of all kinds.Even when seeking redemption in a loveless world Nicolas Winding Refn's characters are still unable to talk except that with fists or knives, unable to act or to stop acting if not by chemically quelling one's fears. This movie is less violence, but perhaps even scarier than Pusher II. It is because of the absolute absence of human empathy or maybe just because is a little bit of Tonny in all of us.