Directed by:
Danny BoyleScreenplay:
John HodgeCinematography:
Anthony Dod MantleCast:
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Anjela Nedyalkova, Shirley Henderson, Irvine Welsh, Simon Weir (more)VOD (3)
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First there was an opportunity... then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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I didn't expect much from it, I didn't really have much of a desire to know what was happening with Renton and his gang at the age of forty-five. In the end, I am pleasantly surprised. The question is whether the fans will see it the same way. T2 Trainspotting doesn't really have much in common with the original Trainspotting. There's Edinburgh, the old gang, drugs, a great soundtrack, and Danny Boyle's unique and captivating direction, but the atmosphere is quite different this time. Instead of carefree young lads who don't care about the future, there are depressed wrecks who have long realized that they've completely fucked up their lives and that it was good while it lasted. And the only thing they have left are memories, nostalgia, and old acquaintances who have hardly changed at all. T2 Trainspotting is actually quite sad, but it's a truthful film about how one can't escape the past and oneself, and that one can either give up or take life as it is, and as such, it works brilliantly.
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I don't know what Danny Boyle intended to do with this sequel to the original Trainspotting, but unfortunately, he didn't manage to get rid of the nostalgia that tends to run through all sequels, perhaps across all cinemas around the world. And the more years since the first movie, the more nostalgic these sequels tend to get. Trainspotting included.
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A funnily told story about a depressing reunion, twenty years on. Surprisingly, I found I liked this sequel much more, because it isn’t so focused on drugs, but on money instead. The main band of human wrecks are older and more experienced, but basically nothing has changed. Once a junkie, always a junkie. Boyle’s fantastic visuals and perfect music.
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A bunch of unlikeable characters return to the scene and it's pretty boring. Instead of drugs, they drop a couple of beers at most, the humour has disappeared, there are no interesting scenes and the fact that I had to see the film three times to get a positive report card doesn't do much either. 50%
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It’s good to see them again after so long. Their characters are simply awesome and the chemistry between them still works. The Renton/Begbie restroom scene is the best one in the movie. Danny Boyle is a timeless artist and a music-video master. But... It must have been obvious to everyone that the script, the impetus for their meeting and all that came out of it, is very weak. That it puts them together by force. I wouldn’t have minded that much if the first Trainspotting wasn’t such a cult movie for me and I didn’t consider Boyle an artist who has no need for this.
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