While this sequel to the groundbreaking Pusher lacks the striking fast pace of the original, it instead creates an atmosphere that lets this one stand on its own as a movie. Shot in a linear sequence, most of the cast are actually street criminals, and the biting edginess is almost palpable. Basically, this flick revolves around a scumbag's life after his release from prison. Amidst general stupidity and heavy drug use, the best of life's choices are not always made. This guy is such a lowlife that it becomes unimaginable that the viewer can feel for him, and yet we do. Through the blur of a cocaine haze, Tonny, our antihero, wants all of the same basic things in life as would any person, but instead finds his family and friends have abandoned any semblance of respect for him and even themselves. Of course, things turn foul for Tonny, how could they not? The acting was intense and phenomenal, the direction another example of guerrilla filmmaking. The story was perfectly simple and effective, though sadly believable. Overall, this was an impossibly terrific followup of the original.
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