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From its opening sequence of Renton and his gang running through the streets of Edinburgh, to the drug fuelled highs and lows of heroin abuse and right through to its violent conclusion, Trainspotting is an absolutely superb mixture of adrenaline fuelled, drug abused lunacy. Its an explosion of talent, packed into a sweet 90 minutes and arguably the movie which single-handedly relaunched the British film industry...if it ever needed it. Directed to perfection by Danny Boyle, alongside John Hodge's acid script and adapted from Irvine Welsh's best-seller(which I thought stank), Transporting is like nothing you have ever seen before. It features some of the best movie characters seen for decades - if ever, in depicting a group of four friends who would just as likely screw each other over at the first opportunity than help. Ewan Mcgregor is fantastic as the Drug obsessed Renton, this his only decent performance since Shallow Grave, outdone only by Robert Carlyle as the Pub-psychopath Begbie. This movie delves deeply into uncharted waters. The unsanitised effects of drug abuse, squalor and decay, dead babies crawling on the ceiling and Renton sinking into the carpet during a period of cold turkey. Begbie's violent psychopathic outbursts are truly terrifying and there are some outrageously gross moments here which laugh horribly in the face of apparent US gross-out movies. They ain't seen nothing yet. The pace of this movie is electrifying, the 90 minutes passing in the blink of an eye, fuel poured on its already blazing inferno by an awesome soundtrack. This is one movie you should NOT miss.
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Production Year: 2003 - Drama - Director: Michael Winterbottom - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar
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Great op! Having moved to Edinburgh since first seeing the film and reading the book its cool to do it all again and actually KNOW the places they are talking about!! Ruth.
eca99ajm 14.07.2001 10:38
It is a great film - I've tried reading the book, but I can't get to grips with the scottish accent! I ended up having to read it out loud to make any sense of it! Thanks! Anna
The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and ... more
Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed wit...
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The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and ... more
Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed wit...
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The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and ... more
Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed wit...
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The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and ... more
Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed wit...
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Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers liars psychos thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing the film charts the disintegra...
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Advantages: Simply and excellently crafted movie that will make you both laugh and cry Disadvantages: Strong language, some sex, occasional brutal violence, scenes of drug taking may offend some people
brianbarnes 06.07.2001 ·
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Review of Trainspotting (DVD)
Advantages: Sublime and raw, a potently must-see eye-opener for the public. Disadvantages: Blotches of the disgusting capability of human anatomy - lots of faeces and the likes.
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Review of Trainspotting (DVD)
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