Pusher
Directed by Luis Prieto
Written by Matthew Read
United Kingdom, 2012
The best action in film springs from desperation. Die Hard hits plenty of familiar beats in the action-movie genre, for example, but forces its lead into a corner at the outset, making it so he has to fight to get out and stay alive. The notion of trapping someone to see what they’ll do and how far they’ll go to survive is at the heart of the propulsive and intense new British thriller Pusher, a remake of the 1996 film that catapulted its director, Nicolas Winding Refn (recently the director of Drive, and the executive producer of this redo), to European film stardom. The new Pusher is a stripped-down affair, emphasizing the ticking-clock element of the story to exceptional effect.
Frank (Richard Coyle) is a small-time drug dealer in London, living as close to the high life as...
Directed by Luis Prieto
Written by Matthew Read
United Kingdom, 2012
The best action in film springs from desperation. Die Hard hits plenty of familiar beats in the action-movie genre, for example, but forces its lead into a corner at the outset, making it so he has to fight to get out and stay alive. The notion of trapping someone to see what they’ll do and how far they’ll go to survive is at the heart of the propulsive and intense new British thriller Pusher, a remake of the 1996 film that catapulted its director, Nicolas Winding Refn (recently the director of Drive, and the executive producer of this redo), to European film stardom. The new Pusher is a stripped-down affair, emphasizing the ticking-clock element of the story to exceptional effect.
Frank (Richard Coyle) is a small-time drug dealer in London, living as close to the high life as...
- 10/26/2012
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
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