Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

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Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Guy PUSHER is a remake of the Danish film of the same name, and is inferior in every way. It's a great B-movie plot - drug dealer loses his supplier's stash and is threatened with death by him unless he can get the money back immediately - but the film is weak. Not only are all the main characters scumbags - nobody even questions whether pushing drugs is moral - but they aren't even interesting, competent or sympathetic enough to care about. Frankly, I was rooting for the Turkish drug baron (who can't be all bad, as he makes his own baklava) to clear house. One scene late on, when the pusher visits his nice middle class mum to beg for cash has potential but ends before it can go anywhere. There's also a lack of adrenaline, as the villain's deadline is at least a week away, leading to lots of pointless scenes as the protag sits around chatting with his girlfriend (model Agyness Deyn, who is pretty but can't act) which has to be papered over with repetitive club scenes full of pumping music and flashing lights. Ultimately, nasty and dull.

akupm Review: The picture had an elementary plot with a tense and gripping atmosphere. The opening scene introduced the audience to the main characters with a trigger pulling style. I'd enjoyed the action sequences because I was trapped in suspense. The characters in the film were easy to acknowledge but the picture wasn't physiological. It was like watching a Martin Scorsese film because every scene was a highlight with tension. It's a movie fun to watch like (Pulp Fiction) but not physiological. I liked the London landscape because it gave a modern substance. My ears were trapped in the tech-no soundtrack that was composed and played in a nightclub mood. I liked how the characters were expressive with their vocal chords and body language. It was like staring into the seven expressionism of art. I believed that the picture had a modern looking production and casual costume designing. I give the movie a 6/10.

TdSmth5 In Pusher, we follow Frank, a low lever drug dealer/user in London for a week. Usually he deals small quantities in danceclubs or larger quantities to partying rich low lives. His girl, a stripper and escort but not prostitute, keeps the money for him. He also spikes the drugs and keeps the remainder in a storage space.He's got two major deals going on. In the first his sidekick recommended him to some guy who wants to buy 1 kilo of drugs. Frank is reluctant, he doesn't know the guy, but he eventually accepts. He gets the kilo on credit from his dealer whom he already owes 3000 pounds. The second deal involves a girl who will bring him 1/2 kilo somehow in her body from Amsterdam.The first deal goes wrong, the cops show up and Frank is forced to dump the drugs in a lake, so the cops have to release him. Now he has no drugs and no money, and owes his dealer even more. His dealer likes him and treats him alright, as long as things are going well. But when he can't deliver, things get progressively worse. Frank and one of the dealer's guys start collecting debts owed to Frank and things get violent. And this is also a warning to Frank about what will happen to him if he doesn't deliver.Frank is counting on the second deal to go through, but it doesn't. The girl eventually shows up with 1/2 kilo of sugar. She was ripped off in Amsterdam. That gets Frank a good beating and a final deadline to obtain the ever increasing amount of money. Finally he sees the light and decides to escape the country with his girl, but he's got a couple of things to take care off.I have not seen the original version of this. Pusher while marketed as some violent edgy movie, is rather a very good thriller/drama with a unique personality. Frank and his friends are a likable bunch and you don't want to see them in trouble. Since you care for him, the story itself is interesting and most of the other characters are also compelling, especially his friendly but dangerous dealer. Stories like these work only as long as the characters remain irrational and insist on staying in their little hell and refuse to see the obvious way out- get the hell out of town and take your business elsewhere. Acting, direction, editing and good all around. The music is also excellent, there's lots of electronic music when Frank goes to clubs.

scary_name I was thrilled when I first saw that a remake (and an English one at that!) was being mad. After watching the result I can only say that I wished I never watched it. The original is so much better that I am at a loss for words.The plot is still the same, and even though Milo is played by Zlatko he seem to have lost some of his original...zest.This might have been a descent remake if the casting had been better.For starters: Kim Bodnia played the original Frank, his alter ego in this one is not even a distant shadow of the same character. Tony comes across like some dweeb...Sorry but this is not good.