Trainspotting Reviews and Ratings



  • June 4, 2009
    Amazing, but still supercreeptastic at times.
  • June 4, 2009
    "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact discplayers and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mordgage repayments. Choose a starter home....( read more) Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
    That is the short, brilliant introduction to Danny Boyle's best movie, with the sound of Iggy Pop's "Lust for life".
    Renton seems to be rejecting the dominant ideals of his time, but deep down inside he doesn't. His "transformation" from drug addict to a proper citizen then back to drug addict and then to proper citizen is quite familiar from Alex's story in Clockwork Orange: psycho-harmless-psycho. Both movies mentioned end up showing us the same thing: No one wants to be last. Especially those who are always last. There are parts in the movie where Renton is quite optimistic and brings to mind an Oscar Wilde quote: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Boyle is using surrealism to depict certain points of the characters' life, with the most impressive being the scene where Renton dives into a lavatory to find his drugs. Surrealism had until then been used mostly from directors such as Kubrick, Pasolini and Bunuel.
    Trainspotting did not receive any awards, in contradiction to Boyle's latest film "Slumdog Millionaire", which can not hold a candle to Trainspotting, that won eight Academy Awards. A bit unfair, maybe...?
  • June 3, 2009
    Trainspotting is an extremely quick and witty dark comedy about a bunch of druggies and lowlifes trying to cope with life between heroin shots. It's hilarious and depressing at the same time, and gets bonus points for the excellent soundtrack. The movie also has Ewan McGregor at ...( read more)his finest, as the druggie Renton, who wants to get out of his miserable way of living.
  • June 2, 2009
    Awesome film to watch with friends
  • June 2, 2009
    Brilliant! Disturbing! Eye-opening!
  • May 28, 2009
    dont talk to me if you don't like this movie.
  • May 28, 2009
    i can't tell you exactly why i love this movie. maybe lookin in on the life of a drug addict is safer than being one.
  • May 22, 2009
    Twisted, Disturbing and fun. Should be a cult classic.
  • May 21, 2009
    amazing, twisted, funny.
  • May 21, 2009
    Wow, good movie on drugs. Made me learn which ones to take and which ones to not! LOL
  • May 21, 2009
    real and funny at the same time
  • May 20, 2009
    Un clásico junkie... "La naranja mecanica de los 90's"... quien dijo eso? quien sabe, pero a la altura si que está.
  • May 13, 2009
    Danny Boyle never fails to impress.
  • May 11, 2009
    yes..from the man who bring u slumdog millionaire....
  • May 11, 2009
    HOLY SHIT! OBI WAN AND THE FULL MONTY ON HEROIN! YAY
  • May 10, 2009
    love the book,love the soundtrack,love the movie!!!
  • May 1, 2009
    O tema pode ser até um pouco batido, mas a criatividade transforma uma velha história num bom filme.
  • April 26, 2009
    The best film about drugs ever made. If you shoot up after watching this you are already an addict or totally mental. AND it's funny. OH, and the only good thing Ewan McGregor has ever been in.
  • April 25, 2009
    Fucking awesome movie and the best I have seen about the hardcore drug lifestyle! Nice tasty smack :P
  • April 23, 2009
    This is a very good film, promoting the real facts of what could happen!
  • April 21, 2009
    The hallucination scene was good. I find the movie as a precious one. It has a very good story. The cast were so great! I didn' even recognized Ewan McGregor. (In the movie) I didn't even think that he will go back to heroin again but he did, the ending was good. I was entertained.
  • April 19, 2009
    Well this was a nice treat for me, i absolutely enjoy this movie from beginning to end. A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relat...( read more)ionship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
  • April 15, 2009
    ok, ok. nice film. :]
  • April 13, 2009
    "La mejor droga y mas letal la consumimos dia tras dia.."
  • April 13, 2009
    nice looking, pacey but no character. Comic book reality, just concerned with shocking and appearing edgy.
  • April 12, 2009
    strange tale... got class... diction hard to understand though
  • April 12, 2009
    An Amazing, Gritty film! One of My Favourites!
  • April 11, 2009
    I can watch this movie times and times over! Definitely a must-see...
  • April 11, 2009
    had been a while since I last saw this one... like 10+ years. and I still love it as much as I did when it was first released.

    great film. ♥
  • April 8, 2009
    i ad enuf of this shite
  • April 7, 2009
    The dead babies still freak me out, but it's such an awesome movie, it's worth it. Two of my favourite Ewens in one place!
  • April 6, 2009
    All the best movies are the ones that not many people see. This is one of them.
  • April 3, 2009
    music by new order and underworld? a baby crawling across the ceiling?

    what's not to love?
  • April 3, 2009
    This movie really screwed with my head when it came to the baby.
  • March 28, 2009
    Ewan Mcgregor lets audiences into the seedy underworld of the once problematic heroin problem that plagued Glasgow. Good movie.
  • March 26, 2009
    Irvine Welsh is just a genius. Brilliant story, excelent acting.
  • March 23, 2009
    Very good, nothing more I can say about how great it is.
  • March 22, 2009
    fecking awesome, i think i liked this film more because it is filmed and based in scotland, but trust me i loved it!
    it shows just how much pain and damage drugs cause,!
    makes me proud to be scottish:)
    amazing acting and amazingliy filmed! well done scotland!
  • March 20, 2009
    One of the best movies i've ever fuckin seen
  • March 19, 2009
    Very gritty and graphic. Effective storytelling though, in spite of the things it deals with. It's technically in English, but you will probably want to turn on the subtitles. I'm taking half a star off the "worthwhile" rating of four stars because I don't think it was quite good...( read more) enough to justify how graphic and gross it was.
  • March 19, 2009
    just another fab irvine welsh book been turned into a grate movie looking into the lifes of drug addicts in there efort to escape reality in such a raw way .. i have to say i think it was very well done

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