Completed a review article based on supervisor's request but then it cannot be published due to lack of funding
The supervisor of your friend is mistaken. Judging the quality of a journal by how much it charges authors* shows a blatant ignorance of how academia works in general. It makes me suspect he only publishes in expensive lower-tier OA journals. 

I would recommend that your friend finds a reputable, subscription-based journal in the field and tries to bring her/his supervisor to reason. 

Yet it might be that the supervisor is making an excuse I would then ask for the real reason why he doesn't want to publish the paper.



*I'm baffled that we have come to that. The author-pay open access scheme is hurting academic publishing more than I thought.