Trainspotting Reviews and Ratings



  • 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
  • March 14, 2009
    I personally haven't reached that point in my life where heroine becomes my breakfast lunch & dinner so as far as the message from it... didn't connect..but it was very entertaining i loved the thick scottish accents and i fell in love with characters...poor tommy.
  • March 11, 2009
    Sometimes there are those films that not many people will relate to in its subject matter, but the audacious energy keeps them riveted despite it all. Trainspotting is one such film. Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, John Hodge's (A Life Less Ordinary, The FInal Curtain) ...( read more)screenplay is the second straight collaboration with director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), as well as Ewan McGregor. "Trainspotting" is the rather useless habit of keeping track of the various arrival and departure times of trains at a station. Knowing this, the significance to the useless habit depicted in the film, namely heroin addiction, is evident.

    Trainspotting is far from a glamorous depiction of the lives of heroin addicts amid a junkie culture, and the tone and subject matter of the film, with its graphic showcases of such distasteful images, such as a man searching through a filthy toilet for a fix, subconsciously give the effect of repulsion rather than titillation. It's a disgusting movie, but appropriate, because it's a disgusting habit.

    Set in Edinsburgh, Scotland, the story mostly revolves around Mark Renton, played brilliantly by Ewan McGregor (Velvet Goldmine, The Phantom Menace). His life is a sputtering mess, wishing he could get off of the heroin addiction, yet also strangely attracted to the culture. When he isn't shooting up, he is concentrating all of his efforts for his next fix, and although he deeply disappoints his parents, his every ambition is concentrated into the habit. He is surrounded by some friends who also share his addiction, yet are so devoid of character, that they only add more fuel to the fire. The film is about their quest for happiness, their lack of attaining it, and the covering up of the unhappiness through their escapist addictions.

    Much of the reason why Trainspotting is a mostly successful venture is due to Danny Boyle's energetic direction, sometimes surreal, sometimes symbolic, but always engaging. It's both a difficult film to watch, but impossible to avert your eyes from. The cast gives their all, and a good sense of musical accompaniment delivers the proper effect for the film's tone.

    Trainspotting is not a film which will please everyone, as it deals with unsettling subject matter, plus it's chock-full of nausea-inducing sights and sounds. However, for those with an interest in the subject matter, and with strong stomachs, it's about as entertaining a film showcasing the pathetic lives of junkies as one could reasonably expect.
  • March 9, 2009
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    Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. C...( read more)hoose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

    RENTON: I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got hero

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  • March 8, 2009
    Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. C...( read more)hoose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on 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, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

    This movie is set in Eddinburgh and begins wiht the sardonic narration(the quote above) of Mark Renton.
    Mark instead of "choosing a life" has with his mates prefers to live in a meaningless heroinaddiction. Through the movie we meet his friends; Spud, Sickboy, Tommy and Begbie. We followed Mark, Spud and Sickboy as they try to sober up and quit heroin, which of course is no-where as easy as they thought.
    The whole movie is narrated by Mark Renton as we watch him and his friends dig themselves deeper into their addiction and other drug-related tradgedies like AIDS and death occur...

    The movie is rather messy in true Danny Boyle style. I for one really enjoyed this movie it is one of a kind to me. It's a tragig story about some young scottish junkies that doesnt really want to "choose life"...Ewan McGregor is amazing as Mark Renton.
    And I have to say that this is one of my favourite movies...through all time...
    And those beautiful scottish accents...
    Definitly worth seeing for anyone who likes different, real and sardonic movies...I know I do...

    The movie ends with Renton narrating again...and it is just as sardonic as when we first heard his voice. when he was being chased down the road with Spud...

    Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. Or we'd outgrown each other, you know, that sort of thing. But let's face it, I ripped them off - my so called mates. But Begbie, I couldn't give a shit about him. And Sick Boy, well he'd done the same to me, if he'd only thought of it first. And Spud, well okay, I felt sorry for Spud - he never hurt anybody. So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers - all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person. But, that's gonna change - I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.
  • March 6, 2009
    " I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon ta...( read more)ke hold of me. It's on its way."
  • March 5, 2009
    The best drug movie on earth, period. It got all of the elements in a drug infested realm to entertain.
  • March 5, 2009
    I don't remember much of this movie but I remember it was very good. I have to see it again. One of the best movies that Ewan has done.
  • March 2, 2009
    shocking movie, first of genre
  • March 1, 2009
    Quite a depressing and troubling film, but I couldn't stop watching it. It was well done.
  • February 28, 2009
    Fucking greatttt film,
  • February 25, 2009
    A dark, comedic film. Not a dark comedy, but incorporates different genres. The acting is very solid from everyone, and Robert Carlyle stands out among the bunch.
  • February 24, 2009
    A great but strange and at times disturbing movie. The film has a great cast. Ewan McGregor really stood out in his role. Shows the true dark side of heroin. The scene with the dead baby was very disturbing but most likely happens every day with junkies to high to take care of th...( read more)eir kids. The characters are great and interesting and the story solid. Not a movie for everyone.
  • February 23, 2009
    awesome act by Ewna McGregor...
    U should see this!
  • February 23, 2009
    i just love this film. probably my favourite.

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