I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III
2005 ‘Pusher 3’ Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Synopsis
I'm the Angel of Death.
In this third installment of the 'Pusher' trilogy, we follow Milo ('Zlatko Buric'), the drug lord from the two first films. He is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10.000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan
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This one is better than II.
Milo's character is much more empowered and interesting than Tonny. It's a mix up of trying to get straight but being bent. Trying to be nice but being a cunt. Being a cunt to others but being treated like a cunt yourself.
It doesn't really have have the retarded gold chain gangsters that the other two have. I think that's perhaps what I wasn't keen on in the first one. I've no interest in wide boys.
Good shit!
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Can't believe I haven't gotten around to watching this film till now. I love the Pusher films and this one did not disappoint. After only one watch, this would be my least favorite but I still loved it. Zlatko Buric is amazing. It was also so nice to see Slavko Labovic again as Radovan, awesome guy - but man! does he know some fucked up ways to get rid of a body. Pretty messed up.
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The last in Winding Refn's Danish gangster trilogy. This features the boss from the first film, Milo, as he battles drug addiction while preparing food for 50 people at his daughters birthday party. During courses he manages to swan about offing several of the underclass in the process.
Brutal and menancing.
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This one is better than II.
Milo's character is much more empowered and interesting than Tonny. It's a mix up of trying to get straight but being bent. Trying to be nice but being a cunt. Being a cunt to others but being treated like a cunt yourself.
It doesn't really have have the retarded gold chain gangsters that the other two have. I think that's perhaps what I wasn't keen on in the first one. I've no interest in wide boys.
Good shit!
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I think this is the best in the trilogy and the character of Milo is beautifully evened out, after brief appearances in the last 2 films.
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1/2013
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conclusion to The Pusher trilogy, here concerning the business man/criminal from the first film, his dealings with adiction, a drug deal going sour and his daughters birthday. good to see the charactor from that film getting his own story as its warranted and runs well, and as it moves along brings a conclusion that has given a greater view in that world
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The slightest film of the trilogy, there is less to be said of the third film in the 'Pusher' trilogy but it's still another suitably grubby and droll foray into the world so effectively created by Refn in earlier efforts.
Continuing the idea of taking a peripheral character from the original and contructing a new story around them, we take Milo, the intimidatingly charming villain of the first film, as he tries to deal with his demanding daughter's birthday and the stress of a drug deal gone wrong.
If you'd asked me after the first film which character would have made a better sequel, I'd have plumped for Milo over Tonny but surprisingly that's not quite the case. Milo's concerns…
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"Pusher 3" es la conclusion a esta fantastica trilogia de crimen, ahora enfocandose en el personaje de Milo (quien tambien tuvo roles menores en las dos anteriores). Aqui vemos a un narcotraficante buscando dejar su adiccion a las drogas pero de nuevo envuelto en trabajos ilicitos que le traeran muchos problemas. Winding Refn ha creado una gran saga que nos adentra a la brutalidad y violencia involucrada en el trafico de drogas desde la perspectiva de sus distribuidores.
"Pusher 3" contiene momentos crudos y puede que sea la menos efectiva de las 3 cintas pero sin duda es una pelicula memorable con excelentes actuaciones y el cierre de una gran trilogia danesa. Sumamente recomendable. -
Who in their right minds would have ever centered a film around the character of Milo. Who cares about his back story and what makes him tick? Refn does and does it extraordinarily well.
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Being that Milo was the most interesting character from the first Pusher, unsurprising that his perspective was the most interesting and entertaining out of the three for me. Love that Refn chose to humanize a couple of the peripheral characters from Pusher to flesh out his trilogy. This is the same Milo from the first movie, but a bit older and under a considerable amount of strain from various factions interested in taking a piece of his empire for themselves. It's a day in the life film, a day that has our lead reflecting on where he's at, what got him there, and what direction he's going to take next.
Excellent stuff, look forward to anything else Refn has in store.
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Nicolas Winding Refn recalls the same mechanic that worked particularly well for his exceptional sequel, but unfortunately it doesn't bring the same result. The director's authorial stylistics are all present, though rather toned down due to the weakness of the narrative. The concluding part of Refns trilogy is certainly the weakest and fails to match the quality of its predecessors.