Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Boring

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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

Ohh what a movie and trilogy, this is truly a masterpiece. As a guy who is in touch with drugs and people from that environment I can say that director and actors did a great job. A story about 2 best friends(Frank and Tonny), small dealers, who suddenly had an a opportunity to do a big job with drugs and earn some nice and easy money. So basically, Frank took a kilo or something of heroin from a local drug lord boss and Serbian immigrant(Milo) and told him that he will be back in a hour with money. But sadly for Frank, when he went to a meeting with a guy to sell him a heroin, police was there... Frank flied with heroin while cops was chasing him and when there was no more space for him to run, he threw heroin in the lake in front of the cops. He was released from prison because no evidence, but problem for Frank now starts because he needs to pay the money for a heroin which he got from Milo. And here the story begins..This is one of the best movies and trilogy I ever saw and cast was just amazing, especially Zlatko Buric and Kim Bodnia. 10/10

Apparently this gangster film was really huge in Europe. I'm not sure how 'big' it was here, in Britain, but, in my opinion, it's no 'Lock Stock.' Firstly, it feels cheap. I know a lot of people who enjoyed it will call it 'gritty,' but Reservoir Dogs was 'gritty' and still felt stylish at the same time. 'Pusher' just feels like it was filmed with a video camera without anyone's permission on each location.It's about a gangster, who seems to dabble in everything from drugs to armed robbery, trying to organise a drugs deal which – guess what – goes wrong and leaves him in debt to an even nastier gangster. Do we care? Not really.I have no problem with films about gangsters (or 'bad guys' to use another term). We don't have to like them to enjoy the film, just as long as they provide some form of entertainment. Our central character here doesn't. He's bland. He doesn't ever really inspire us to care whether he lives, dies or finds a way of paying his way out of the situation. He just sort of spends the film wandering around doing some half-hearted effort of calling in old debts.And that's about it. A cheap-looking film with bland characters who you won't really care about and a plot that's been done to death. Yes, the film has Mads Mikklesen in an early role, but he doesn't do enough to elevate it to anything other than very ordinary.However, this film has seemed to have spawned a couple of sequels meaning many must have seen something in it that I didn't. I guess if you can put up with the subtitles and don't mind the rawest of raw films then you may get something out of it.

In other words, I enjoyed more the first third or so when good performance by Kim Bodnia (as Frank) was complemented by even better performance by Mads Mikkelsen (as Tonny; usually, he has totally different roles); their ensemble was great, their dialogs witty and a good demonstration of modern vanity fair. Anyhow, it is a strong film, depicting daily life of drug dealers/addicts in a realistic manner - without making it heroic or "cool". The use of hand-held cameras and suitable soundtrack provide additional value to the film.The other male actors are catchy and veracious as well, particularly Zlatko Burić as Milo and Slavko Labović as Radovan. Female characters tend to be more sketchy and spend a little time on screen.The film is for you if you like gloomy stuff and to have ambivalent feelings towards most of characters - there are virtually no "good persons" visible.

This is a film about how crime never pays. Literary. Pusher Frank(Kim Bodina) is a middle level drug dealer in Copenhagen. He spends his time hanging out with his drug dealer buddy Tonny(Mads Mikkelsen) doing business and clubbing. He has also a strange psuedoromantic relationship with the hooker "Vic"(Laura Drasbæk). Frank is debt to the drug-lord Milo(Zlatko Buric), but since Milo is a nice guy and Frank is his best friend in Copenhagen he is cool with it as he trust his friend to pay him back. One day Frank get's the chance to do a big deal with the swede Hasse(Peter Andersson). Frank get's the heroin the swede wants to distribute in Malmö, but the cops show up and Frank drops the heroin into a river. Frank's "buddy-debt" has now been blown up to a enormous level, and Milo shows how little friendship means in a world with no morals.This film is a fu***** masterpiece. It's so good that it together with Pusher II: With Blood on my Hands and I'am The Angel of Death: Pusher 3 it manages to even outshine the Godfather- trilogy. Pusher is a dirty and raw ride into the bottom shaft of the Copenhagen-underworld. The criminals are scum, but they are still people. They are like real people with good and bad sides. Every actor in this film is fantastic. Kim Bidina, Laura Drasbæk, Mads Mikkelsen, Slavko Labovic and Zlatko Buric all give wonderful performances. Will cinema ever see a greater gangster character than Milo?During the cause of the film, we get to know more and more about Frank and the more we get to know the more questions pops up. In one scene Frank visits his mother and we learn that Frank grew up in an ordinary middle class home. Why did he become a gangster? What went wrong?The image quality is gritty, it feels more like director Nicolas Winding Refn took his personal 16mm camera and followed a pusher for a week. The film does not feel like a film, but a home-video belonging to a gangster who has filmed his friends for fun. It's honest, authentic and gripping.The music by Peter Peter is great. It feels very much like the stuff you would hear on the radio in the hideout of some Copenhagen mobsters. It's as gritty as the film itself.The ending leaves one speechless. I won't spoil it, but it's unforgiving and breathtaking.