Mads Mikkelsen gets beaten the fuck up. What's not to love?

boring despite all the action.

if you've seen one gritty european crime drama you've seen them all

Raw. Brutal. Brilliant. This is everything 'The Godfather' should have been. There's a lot to appreciate for the initiate: The settings around Copenhagen, the best ever acting in a Danish film, 'Koxbox'. Surely, however, everyone can enjoy this universal big city tale of male emasculation.

A great, no-frills crime film that doesn't glamorize its subject or protagonist. Maybe it's mostly due to the film's independent nature, but the restraint shown by Refn all around makes the film that much more commendable.

Gritty, documentary style filmed story about a drug dealer whose life spirals out of control. Great atmosphere and weird characters. I lost the subtitles halfway while watching, but still enjoyed it. Fascinating film

Not such a big deal. It's a neat film, with cool characters and the serious tone and feel that a movie about drug dealers should have. Still it's no masterpiece, and just because it's filmed in handheld cameras and has realistic dialogue it doesn't mean this Refn guy is some fucking Tarantino. People keep forgetting that stuff. Cool film though.

BAM! In-your-face masterpiece director-debut from Nikolas Winding Refn. Pusher 1 is a character-driven action-gangster-docu-drama. Aronofsky's The Wrestler borrows intensively from Pusher - and with good reason. It was one of the 90's-movies that helped kickstart the Danish movie-industry both commercially and artistically after decades of pure crap, with nearly only Bille August and Niels Malmros (and a young Lars von Trier) keeping the art alive. Pusher was a kick in the balls to Danish film!

Den gør mig simpelthen i dårligt humør - er det meningen, så må den jo være ok.

Nice

Great film.

This is a really life-like, gritty and realistic gangster movie. None of that fantasy world bullshit with drug kingpin's sucking cocaine pulver out of golden plate and drive-bying recklessly random people. I love the atmosphere hand-held camera creates. Bodnia is a God.

Goddamn. Criminals acting like the charming bastards they are. No frills, no glamour, and just enough stereotypes.

A bona fide classic.

Okay, it's by no means bad but let's get a few things straight. Handheld filming doesn't always mean a movie is "documentary-style" and natural lighting doesn't always make it "realistic". Sometimes, as in this case, those mostly just indicate a tight budget. Loosely scripted dialogue does not guarantee naturalism either. It all depends on the vision of the filmmaker, and Refn's is pretty standard - he is no Scorsese or Cassavetes, hardly even a De Palma or Tarantino.