Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death

2005 Crime Drama

In the third and final chapter of Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn's acclaimed Pusher trilogy, the focus shifts from disgraced gangster's son Tonny to feared Serbian crime lord Milo. First seen in the original film as a vicious underworld heavy with a thirst for blood and a sadistic mean streak, Milo's violent professional life couldn't stand in starker contrast to his henpecked home life. From catering to the constant demands of his spoiled daughter, Milena, to watching over his shiftless henchmen and cooking his helpers some questionably prepared samosas, Milo's notorious street reputation can't hold a candle to his reputation for being quite a softie around the house.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Starring: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac, Slavko Labovic, Kujtim Loki

Reviews

  • Like everybody else in the Pusher films, Buric contemplates what it would take to leave the mob life behind. And like everybody else, he decides he wants to get better without getting well.

    Noel Murray - The A.V. Club

    27 May 2013

  • It's the rare crime film that balances the vicarious thrill of rampant illegality with the real-world desperation of broken souls who are nearly always one wrong move away from a wretched end. Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's "Pusher" trilogy are such movies.

    - Los Angeles Times

    27 May 2013

  • 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.

    - New York Magazine

    27 May 2013

  • 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.

    V.A. Musetto - New York Post

    27 May 2013

  • One of the oddest and most challenging releases of the season.

    Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com

    27 May 2013

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