Disappointing
If you have been waiting anxiously for a poorly acted, more boring version of the great film 'Pusher' you are in luck!
don't bother
engages but ultimately does not deliver.the ending leaves you hanging and you don't know what happens to the main character.he also is not particularly sympathetic .almost worth watching but not for the ten dollars i paid.not to mention completely depressing.no real point to it other than a low life is willing to sell out everyone including his own mother[literally] to survive.he deserved all got
Raw, Moody, Gritty - The Rise of Richard Coyle
Why filmmakers find it necessary to remake versions of films successful in other languages so soon after the release of the originals is puzzling - but we have remakes of the Stieg Larrson "Millennium series" and now the Nicolas Winding Refn Pusher trilogy transplanted to London instead of Copenhagen: the question remains as to `Why?' Supposedly it is the finest form of flattery to copy another's work, but with the paucity of really quality films in the theaters now the trend seems a redundant waste.
Not that the current Luis Prieto/Matthew Read single version PUSHER is not worth the effort because in many ways it is a tight and tense and well crafted little film. Comparisons seem unfair were it not for the fact that it is a condensation of the Refn trilogy. The story starts off with a bang and races pell-mell to its finish, and the camera work and music background aid immeasurably to the success of the movie. It is a race against the clock thriller in which a minor drug...
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