Wonderfully offbeat film!

Very disappointed :(

A Major Disappointment

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Being from Denmark I was introduced to Pusher in a early stage. I have lived in pretty much all of the settings of the trilogy (Vesterbro, Nørrebro, Nordvest, Amager) I feel blessed by this movie by Winding Refn. He just captures some of most raw and realistic environments.The sequel is not as fast moving as the first but nonetheless still a top tier to me. The story of Tonny is so well portrayed, both by using a great cast of non professional actors and by the cinematography it self greatly inspired by the wave of Danish Dogma 95 - yet still very different. Tonny is one of my favorite movie characters. A life full of harshness, being constantly pushed down and on the lowest rank in his surroundings. I am one of the greatest domestic fans of Winding Refn and Mads Mikkelsen - happy to see they are doing so well at the international film scene. Would also recommend "Bleeder", also a great Winding Refn film with all three Pusher- stars of Mads Mikkelsen, Kim Bodnia and Zlatko Buric.

After watching Pusher, there aren't many things left to be said. Or are there?Pusher II follows Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) after his release from prison. He tries to get a grip on reality, however, the old ways have their appeal and he slips back into his old lifestyle. It is left open whether Tony is simply confused or whether he has some permanent brain damage after being beaten by Frank (Kim Bodnia) in the first part. In any case, he proceeds with his ridiculous "Respect" tattoo on the back of his head.Tony discovers he has a child. The gangster lifestyle is depicted again with out any glamor leaving Tony to think about more than his own future.

I first saw Mads Mikkelsen in Flame and Citron, where he played Citron. I wasn't real impressed with the film, and I wasn't impressed when I saw him again in Pusher. He comes into his own here, as a man just out of prison trying to impress his gangster father. At the same time, he finds out he fathered a child, and now must learn how to be a daddy.I thought Tonny (Mikkelsen) was beat to death in Pusher. Apparently not, but he did sustain some brain damage.Frank (Kim Bodnia) and Vic (Laura Drasbæk) from Pusher would have made this film more interesting, but Mikkelson did turn in a good, if slow performance.

Pusher was a great movie no doubt so clearly i expected A lot from this one but i'm sorry to say that it does NOT and i repeat NOT at all reach the heights of the first one.it's generally boring and not so tuff and scary as the first one cause i can remember in some scenes from Pusher i was really frightened but not at all in this one.Mads Mikkelsen does a good job definitely but i really missed Kim Bodnia cause his role was far more intense and now i've heard that his not in pusher 3 neither is Mads! i hope pusher 3 goes back to the original environment from the first one and i'm glad to see that Zlatko Buric is back in this one cause he has only a very small role in pusher 2 and that sucks!!