In the third (and final) installment of Nicolas Winding Refn's PUSHER trilogy, he takes a look at the Serbian drug lord from the previous two films, Milo. Taking place over the course of a day, it follows Milo as he has to balance preparing for his daughter's birthday celebration and try to work out a drug deal involving ecstasy pills (that he thought were going to be heroin). It's also revealed in the film's first scene that he's a member of Narcotics Anonymous. What makes the film, or at least Milo, compelling is the way he balance his personal and professional lives. He also struggles with addiction as he peddles drugs to other people. These discrepancies are what make him a complex and interesting character despite being surrounded with a bunch of one-note gangster/pusher types. Perhaps it's because I was a bit burned out from the previous two, but I found that this one didn't do enough different to make me really care about the story. Sure, Milo was interesting enough but by this point it felt like Refn was simply going through the motions. At times, this felt like a slower, feature length version of a rather famous scene in Goodfellas: the one where Henry is high on coke and goes back and forth between his house and several other locations as he cooks and picks up guns, drugs, etc. Still, the PUSHER III does have one scene towards the end where Milo disposes of some bodies that was able to capture some of the brutality and gruesomeness shown in the previous two films. From a technical standpoint, the film is done in a hand-held, documentary style that aims, and mostly succeeds at, capturing a day in the life of a gangster. Acting, from what I could tell, seemed to be pretty good or at least on par with the other two films in the trilogy. The score this time wasn't as memorable, but there were a couple key moments that were punctuated with a sound resembling the Hans Zimmer "bwwaaaaaaa" that has become common-place in movie trailers. Overall, I didn't find this film as interesting as PUSHER II, but it still was a well-made film and I'd be hard-pressed to call it "bad." If you've seen the other two, by all means check this out. If not, I'd stick with the first two (especially the second one).

The third installment of Pusher trilogy follows Serbian drug lord Milo (Zlatko Burić) during preparations for his daughter's wedding. At the same time there are some business issues to tend to. The market for synthetic drugs is becoming more sophisticated than in the previous two movies, so Milo has to catch up with a whole new range of players.Nicolas Winding Refn stays dedicated to the documentary approach when filming Pusher 3. Although we're following a man who should be near the top of the food chains of narcotics, there is still little glamor in sight. Milo is capable of surmounting almost anything that befalls him, but the main question remains: Is there an end to this? Probably not, but he is still alive, implying there are thing he is doing right, after all.

Come take a look at the violence and depravity that goes on in ... Copenhagen.Copenhagen? Yup. But this is pretty effin' far from Hans Christian Anderson and the Little Mermaid.This movie caps Nicolas Winding Refn's gangster trilogy and veers off in a somewhat different direction from the first two. "Pusher I" and "Pusher II" were tense and violent movies about the Danish drug trade, but both had an element of comedy.By contrast, Pusher III is one of the darkest movies I've ever seen and it has an extended scene at the end that would never, ever be allowed in a mainstream Hollywood gangster movie.Pusher III happens in a 24-hour period as we follow along with Milo, a mid-level drug kingpin who is apparently a Serb. Milo has a busy day ahead of him. His daughter's 25th birthday is that evening and he's promised to cook food for 50 people. His product supplier got shipments mixed up and sent Milo 10,000 ecstasy tabs instead of the usual heroin. He's withdrawing from heroin himself and drops in at NA meetings during the day. His crew is getting ornery, giving him lip all the time.Sigh. It's hard out there for a gangster. You almost feel sorry for the schlub.Then, when a Polish pimp shows up wanting cash in exchange for a badly frightened 18-year-old girl he has in tow, things start to go bad.This is in no sense of the word an action movie, although there are murders. No guns, either. It's remarkable how directors from outside the U.S. can take material Americans are completely familiar with and make it look completely different. Take the Korean monster movie "The Host" and the Swedish vampire movie "Let the Right One In." Familiar material. Brand new take."Pusher III"is like that. It has stretches where not much happens. But it builds to a horrifying climax all the more horrifying because it plays out utterly matter of fact.And props to Zlatko Buric, who plays Milo. The camera is on him for the entire movie and we get to know every seam in his weary face.

perhaps not, yes without doubt Milo character went undeveloped so one whole a better alternative from the beginning release this story for that in a TV-show followup-development. Still think pusher 3 shows very dramatically a criminal culture aspect of the deep fears running thru Milo's head. mixture of feelings about this last of (3)triology,crappy script;low tempo no surprising movie tricky moments.Guess it better could fit more into a TV-drama release instead of a fully blown movie. anyway, 9 stars for Milo. Im not in favor of trying to make a comparison to the films before, all of them have their type of message, and thats what i intend to look for.