Pusher Reviews

Nicolas Winding Refn is easily one of the most interesting directors at work nowadays so I was really eager to check his directing debut, especially since it has a really a solid reputation. Well, I wasn’t disappointed, that’s for sure. Eventually, the scenes I enjoyed the most was when you get to see  Frank simply hanging around with Tonny and his other acquaintances. At some point, even though Frank owns a huge sum of money to Milo and even if Radovan might have to kill him at some point,  they still had some casial chat which was just so surreal and fascinating. This movie also reminded me of the time when I was a teenager spending most of my free time getting wasted on hashish and alcohol and, even if it might seem like a big waste, I actually had a great time. However, there was also a dark side and when one of my best buddies started to become a small  time dealer and got some big debts, it even became really nasty. Seriously, his own dealer came to my appartment at some point and told me that I should pay my friend’s debt, otherwise, he would come with some guy and take all my stuff. Since it was one of my best friends, I paid his debt but my friend never paid me back and, from that point, our relationship became really sour. So, I could really identify myself with what happened in this movie. Still, from the moment Frank got involved with this drug deal, I pretty much knew everything what would happen afterwards and since it all became really predictable and rather generic, the whole thing was always watchable but it never became really amazing. Anyway, even if it was maybe not a masterpiece, it was still a really solid gritty crime thriller and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Nicolas Winding Refn’s work.