Synopsis
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
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Cast
- Mads MikkelsenTonny
- Leif SylvesterSmeden
- Kurt NielsenKusse Kurt
- Anne SørensenCharlotte
- Øyvind Hagen-TrabergØ
- Karsten SchrøderRøde
- Maria ErwolterGry
- Dan DommerThe Old
- Sven Erik Eskeland LarsenSvend
- Jean Pierre PeuleveChief
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
The introduction of a baby that Tonny supposedly fathered feels worrisome initially...but in Refn's skilled street-realist hands, the child becomes a potent, wailing metaphor for Tonny's own dilemma of rudderless need. - 80
Salon
There’s some shocking violence in Pusher II, but it’s a more expressive cinematic work, verging here and there on dreamlike surrealism. - 80
The New York Times
Where "Pusher" worked fresh texture and authenticity into a classic noir template, Pusher II reaches toward the mode of hyperrealist allegory perfected by the Dardenne brothers. - 80
Empire
The breakneck pace, the seething sense of menace and the unflinching attitude to sex, drugs and violence coagulate into a nastily authentic take on the seediness and venality of modern villainy. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Each film in Nicolas Winding Refn's mesmerizingly brutal Pusher trilogy can stand on its own, but it's fun to see all three and observe the way the bad guys in one become the sympathetic heroes (or anti-heroes) in another. - 75
The A.V. Club
Pusher II works best when it's dwelling on the disconnect between Mikkelsen's lurid imagination and his disappointing reality, though it starts to fade when it becomes about the strained relationships of fathers and sons. - 75
New York Post
[Refn] mixes jittery hand-held camerawork, improvised dialogue and available light to create a nightmarish world of sex, drugs and horrific brutality that will turn off many viewers while delighting others. - 70
Variety
Along with the continual build-up of tension and threatened (more than shown) violence, pic is notable for its brutal depiction of the sex industry.
