I remember seeing Bleeder way back in 2004, it was one of the first international films I saw via a DVD shop in UK.I was becoming incredibly pi$$ed off and fed up with Hollywood mainstream crap at the cinema and on DVD so I ventured into international cinema.After I saw Bleeder, I felt a wave of awesomeness go over me. I felt alive. It was one of the best films I'd seen in YEARS.It was so refreshing and meaningful. Packed with substance.I was very impressed with the acting.Since then, I've become a big fan of Refn, and I absolutely love the Pusher trilogy.Its a shame gems like Bleeder never get the recognition they deserve, but plastic hollow over rated Hollywood $hit does.Top film. See it!!!!!

I don't know where to start with this film. Pusher in my opinion is one of the greatest gangster films of all time, superbly shot with incredible performances, a fantastic storyline and most of all completely realistic. So it would suffice to say that Refn's second film should be just as good if not better, how can you top Pusher? Well the simple answer is you cant and Refn hasn't even tried. He's gone for the more subtle approach and seems to have worked backwards by creating this very slow arty piece. What i think he has done is pay his respects to all of his favourite films without paying homage to any of them. I think he's tried to highlight peoples outlets. We have Lenny the quiet video store clerk who watches 4 films a day all of which are graphically violent and thats it, his life is film, Im guessing this is a reference to a traits of Refn's own character but then we move on to how these things can affect you with Leo's character, he has no outlet, the guys meet up once a week for film night and don't talk, Leo doesn't really understand film and why things are the way that they, he is growing increasingly disappointed witn his life and decides to buy a gun, he doesn't even know why - he needs an outlet. Lea's character is very similar to Lennys except her medium are books, graphic books. There are some very nice shots of the video store and the book shop, a persons collection of fiction endlessly spanning into infinity.Whilst watching i put the slow pace and intense snappy diologue down to character build up and that when we finally see the violent revenge it would make me care even more for the characters, this was not the case. leo wakes up in a factory and instead of Louis beaten him up or torturing him they decide to inject him with HIV+ blood, this is the only refernec i can see to the title 'Bleeder'. Yes its horrible and wrong but hardly a climax, there was no build up, no suspense, no impending doom and what a ridiculous way to exact revenge on someone, its hardly quick. Leo is obviously going to get his own back and he does... wow sigh.So, the acting is good, the cinematography is great, the storyline is boring, the diologue is boring, the end is boring. You don't feel any different from beginning to end after watching it, so whats the point? because he could.There is no explanation the only thing i can say is don't expect it to be anything like pusher.

While visiting in London, I watched Bleeder. I liked it a lot. Haven't seen any other Danish films, but this one is great. One of the other people commenting here said it was made on a low budget. I certainly wouldn't say it showed heavily. There's no real expensive shots (crowd scenes, explosions, etc), but everything is shot to scale and looks good. Especially the cinematography. This and the acting are perhaps the strongest elements of the film. I kept watching how they had framed each shot and how they would do those angles where one person is in the forground facing the camera with an expression on their face while the other person is off in the background waiting for the foreground person to turn back around. Great! I hope this movie gets distributed in the US.

So I travel from Sweden to Copenhagen to see a movie, paying about 15 bucks for the trip, and another 10 for the movie. 25 bucks for a movie???? Was it worth it????Damn right it was, this is Nicholas Winding Refn´s second feature, and after his masterful debut: Pusher I really had my hopes up. And boy was it good.The tempo is a little slower than Pusher, but it really suits the movie. It´s got great dialogue that kinda reminded me of Clerks in some places, especially the scenes in the videostore. The theme of the movie in my mind is about men, and our problems with talking to each other and to women. Sure there are scenes with really disturbing and realistic violence. But I feel it has more in common with John Cassavettes, than Abel Ferrara and Martin Scorsese that I think were refn inspirations for Pusher.The actors are brilliant all around, especially Mads Mikkelsen who does a fantastic performance as a filmgeek, with major problems when it comes to talking and being around girls. And Kim Bodnia gives a really introspective performance that proves his status as one of europe´s if not the whole worlds best actors.All in all a very powerful, and intense movie that is a must see