Pusher 2012

Critics score:
50 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: ... it feels like just another movie about crime and drugs as Frank's week goes from bad to worse. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: There's an ugly, jittery beauty to "Pusher," a very fine British redo of a 1996 Danish movie of the same title. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Prieto's remake capably mimics the original's breakneck energy without adding a single thing. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The chief problem here is that Frank is neither likable nor very bright. For the most part, you're thinking, go ahead, bust his kneecaps. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Much glossier, more bright-lights-big-city, and less jolting than the gritty 1996 original. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: A bit livelier at turning the same screws. Read more

Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: Richard Coyle and a strong supporting cast lend interest to a London-set remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 Danish gangster thriller. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The remake undercuts most everything that made the original distinctive, its tangy, pungent sense of low-lifes and their environment swept away for a glam, stylized world. Read more

Joel Arnold, NPR: Pusher is some kind of tragedy, though not the one its filmmakers intended. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Prieto does what he can to keep things roaring along, but the overall effect is not a lot more stimulating than your average diet cola. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If we haven't caught on from earlier films that drug pushing is a thankless persuasion, maybe this is the movie that will pound in the lesson. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: Just stick to the original: Fate is always more fetching than formula. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The characters that populate Pusher are surprisingly naive and hardly the brightest of bulbs. So much for the image of the wily, street-smart criminal. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: Another cheap 'n' nasty London gangster flick. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Refn may have lent his name as an executive producer and his blessing to Spanish director Luis Prieto, but the inventiveness of the original is MIA. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: If Refn made Pusher, then Prieto sets out to make Pushest. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Pusher faithfully mimics Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 Danish crime saga while missing its nasty, grungy spirit. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: We're ... left to cheer someone simply because there's really no one else to root for. Read more