Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.
Vasilije Bojicic
- Branco
- (as Vanja Bajicic)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaIt was because of the criticism this film recieved in Denmark that Nicolas Winding Refn decided to stop making films there.
- GoofsWhen Milo is speaking at his daughters birthday party, the type of glass he is holding changes twice.
- ConnectionsFeatured in NWR (Nicolas Winding Refn) (2012)
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'I've been busy'
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.
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.
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- dave-sturm
- Sep 20, 2009
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- Also known as
- I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,605
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,792
- Aug 20, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $1,605
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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