{"id":107842,"date":"2012-10-28T03:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=107842"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T03:41:23","slug":"pusher-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/10\/28\/pusher-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Pusher Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Pusher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Luis Prieto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Richard Coyle, Zlatko Buric, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn, Mem Ferda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An English-language remake of &#8220;Drive&#8221; director Nicholas Winding Refn&#8217;s gritty 1996 Danish film of the same name, itself the first of\u00a0a pulpy trilogy, crime drama &#8220;Pusher&#8221; has a neon-lit nervy energy &#8212; at once slick and grungy &#8212; and the sort of unabashed, screw-tightening rhythms\u00a0that genre enthusiasts will embrace. As directed by Luis Prieto, it&#8217;s the tale of\u00a0a drug pusher pushed too far &#8212; a man, caught up in a closing net of owed debt,\u00a0resorting to desperate means that even he finds distasteful. It&#8217;s well acted and for the most part engaging, but also unfolds upon laid narrative track, without much originality.<\/p>\n<p>Frank (Richard Coyle) is a low-level British\u00a0narcotics dealer who pals around with the motor-mouthed Tony (Bronson Webb, channeling Rhys Ifans by way of Sam Rockwell). Frank&#8217;s exotic dancer girlfriend Flo (Agyness Deyn, who sort of recalls a young Kelly Preston) sells for him too, but Frank, perhaps naively,\u00a0also has other schemes in the works. When he advances a\u00a0kilo of cocaine from his Serbian\u00a0supplier,\u00a0Milo (Zlatko Buric, reprising his role from the Danish trilogy) to pull off a lucrative side deal, things unfortunately don&#8217;t go according to plan. Milo&#8217;s rising impatience finally makes him a mortal enemy, and Frank finds himself\u00a0having to try to scrape together money from disparate sources in order to hold Milo&#8217;s burly enforcer\u00a0(Mem Ferda) at bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pusher&#8221; more or less tracks with Refn&#8217;s\u00a0original movie, but also variously recalls Guy Ritchie&#8217;s crime capers (though not as labyrinthine and outlandish), Andrew Dominik&#8217;s &#8220;Killing Them Softly&#8221; (though not as steeped in sociopolitical statement) and many, many\u00a0other similar works. The movie, which premiered\u00a0at the Toronto Film Festival,\u00a0is stylishly photographed, and Pietro definitely finds a way to connect the action with his protagonist&#8217;s mental state,\u00a0eventually even incorporating a few\u00a0flash inserts to convey Frank&#8217;s\u00a0increasing panic. (Alternately swirling and thumping music by techno maestros Orbital helps in this regard as well.)<\/p>\n<p>Both wearied and panicked, Coyle&#8217;s performance is shot through with anxiety. He&#8217;s the film&#8217;s anchor &#8212; the rabbit who finds each new potential avenue of escape sealed off. But &#8220;Pusher&#8221; also feels familiar, and doesn&#8217;t so much build in tension as\u00a0it does check off a series of second act boxes en route\u00a0toward Frank&#8217;s attempted flight. 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