Pusher III

Aroview: Third instalment of the thoroughly gripping Pusher trilogy closes in on the Sisyphean struggle of drug kingpin Milo (Buric) as he desperately battles heroin addiction, a deal-gone-bad and mental instability in the midst of laying on the food for his daughter's 25th birthday.

Unsparing in its treatment of some downright repugnant individuals, yet profoundly sympathetic to the plight of its central character (a terrific Zlatko Buric), this parallels the precarious despair of the first two PUSHER films while earmarking extra space for an incisive depiction of drug-addled psychological decline a la GOODFELLAS. Ups the ante in the bloodletting stakes, too, with an ending that makes Refn's animalistic analogy manifestly and brutally clear.