Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Amateur movie with Big budget

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Based on the original Danish film by Nicolas Winding Refn.The English language version of Pusher stars Richard Coyle as Frank as drug dealer who has borrowed money from an East European gangster for a big deal that has gone wrong. Worse his dim sidekick has grassed him up. Now with no drugs, no money, he has to pay his debt. Frank is having a desperate week as the gangster's henchmen are on to him.The film wants to have a flash kinetic energy with an electronic dance beat soundtrack. Coyle gives a convincing performance as a man who is getting increasingly desperate. However Frank is not likable nor that bright. His mouthy sidekick is even worse, you are glad he ends up in hospital with a broken jaw so the audience does not have hear any more from him.It is a druggy grimy cockney gangster cliched drama with wacky characters. Not original and not that good.

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.

This movie is an obvious example of bad remake attempt. Pusher original is a great movie and one of the best crime drama in modern European cinema. Actually, Dannish. Also it is a part of the trilogy which were (all three) directed by now well known director Nicolas Winding Refn. While Pusher were presented as a very realistic dark crime underworld, this remake is just a poor copy of the movie, same individuals, same places and context. The original movie language is Dannish and is placed in the city of Copehagen, and this one were made by UK actors and placed in London. There is only one actor that played the same character in original and this remake. It is Milo, played by great Zlatko Buric, but what generally fail here, is that Milo have a Turkish background here, while in original he was presented as a Yugoslavian, as his original background is from the region of Ex Yugoslavia (precisely Croatia). As a disappointing point is Milo presented with Turkish background which did not suit here at all. I thought if the characters were original as in original movie, Milo will have original presentation, but it ends as something different. Maybe it is because in original movie he was presented as a Serb praising some of the well known war criminals like Karadzic or Arkan. Maybe only because of that director Luis Prieto presents Milo with different background. The obvious copy of the plot did not look effective at all. The feeling is that we watch bad repetition of original, and it is so obvious how original is good. Far from better, unique I should say. The actors also were not convincing as those in original. I don't think that this movie will leave positive marks among critique and audience, but this is my opinion. No one have to agree with it. I say, this one is not worth to remember, only as a bad repetition of original great Film. Director Nicolas Winding Refn acts here as an executive producer, and I really don't know what is his opinion on this one, but regarding original Pusher, he made other two stories that follows first Pusher, and all of the three stories fits excellent in a whole, as a Pusher Trilogy. I found that there are also one more remake of Pusher made in 2010, in Hindi language. I did not see it so I will not comment on this one.

I really enjoyed this movie, it's fast, fresh, realistic, artistic, I loved the whole cast, especially Richard Coyle! The soundtrack from Orbital was amazing! For me it was even better than the original, hats of to Luis Prieto. This movie is a little gem. Richard Coyle deserves an award for his performance, he put so much heart & passion into the role, "it really shows" what I love about the characters in the movie is that you feel for them, even for the bad guys! The soundtrack really gives the movie a kick, what can I say Orbital are great! I also like the fact that they brought the mafia boss Milo from the first movie in this one! He really brought laughter to the movie! The locations spots for the movie were shot in Stock Newington, which I felt gave a different take of London, also having a Spanish directer, direct the movie in London gives a fresh pair of eyes to the whole London culture, club culture & drug culture!I know there will be people comparing it to the first movie, which is much more violent & gritty, but I fell that this movie is a breath of fresh air being set in London, great soundtrack & in my opinion a much better cast!