Trainspotting (DVD) Reviews

One of my all-time favourite films. "Trainspotting" tells the story of our protagonist Renton(Ewan McGregor), a heroin junkie, and his group of heroin addict friends as their addiction becomes more dangerous and real. By the end of the film Renton changes his outlook on life, which at the beginning of the film, well...he ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting is of artistic genius. Every little segment works together to make a piece of art, not just a movie. The background story is that Mark Renton is trying to overcome Heroin addiction and escape his 'friends'. On his mission he has sex with a 15 year old, avoids Prision and nearly dies. Some people may ...  Read the complete review

So it must have been around '96 or something, because England were doing alright in the football, and it was the last time I can remember when everyone in the country didn't hate each others guts. We were all driving along on this big double decker bus painted with the Union Jack. Liam and Noel were there, wearing their little ...  Read the complete review

Choose life? Choose everything. Choose........... Danny Boyle was put firmly on the map with this stark and brutal look at the damage drugs can do to your life, focusing on a small group of youths in Edinburgh as they go about their daily mundane existence. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, Boyle makes sure the camera is put ...  Read the complete review

I picked up this little gem for a measly £2.00. I know it's quite an old movie but stilll a bargain at this price. I generally find English films very boring especially the historic movies but the British seem too make really good movies in three categories,war movies, gangster movies, youth culture movies. This film definitely falls ...  Read the complete review

If you like your British, gritty films then this is one for you. A fan of films such as This is England, Goodbye Charlie Bright and Human Traffic, it was inevitable that Trainspotting was going to be a big hit with myself. The only mystery is how I've gone on for so long without seeing the film/reading the book! As a bit of a film ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting released in 1996 is a grim, sometimes depressing look at the drug scene in Edinburgh and is brought to us by the same team that gave us Shallow Grave in 1994. Sometimes funny but mainly hard-hitting and powerful this film is a really good insight into the drug culture and how it can take hold of lives. Ewan ...  Read the complete review

British film maker Danny Boyle, who also directed this year's big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, directed in 1996 what can probably be considered his mos acclaimed work. I haven't yet seen Slumdog Millionaire but the story really doesn't catch my attention... Anyway, in certain ways this movie kinda reminds me of Stanley Kubricks ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting is a film from the mid-1990's, and is both grim and fascinating. Sadly, it was the film chosen by my now-husband for our first proper date at the cinema back in 1996. How romantic (not)! The story, originally a book by the great author Irvine Walsh, follows a group of apparent no-hopers living in the ...  Read the complete review

1995 saw the release of one of the most controversial and influential films in British Cinema history - Trainspotting. Based on the book of the same name by Irvine Walsh, the film centred on a group of heroin addicts and their friends. Walsh managed to perfectly empathise the hopelessness of drug addiction, and was a grim depiction of ...  Read the complete review

A film which shows the darker side of Edinburgh from the drug scene which is rife to the poorer areas on the outskirts of the city. The opening scene running down Princes St with the brilliant 'choose life, choose a job' speech is well known even to people who have not seen the film and you will be hooked from the start. The ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting is an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel( Irvine actually appears in the film as 'mother superior') Ewan McGregor stars as Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton, a youthful Edinburgh heroin addict. Ewan McGregor was fairly unknown when this film came out and his performance is absolutely outstanding! Although a foul mouthed,heroine ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting one of the most controversial films to hit Britain since A clock work orange back in 1971. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh (who also starred in the film) this film is about a group of drug addicts living in Edinburgh, Scotland. This film shows how drugs can seriously ruin a persons life.. causing conflict ...  Read the complete review

I remember the controvesy surrounding this film when it came out at the cinema in 1996. I was 16 at the time and I got my dad to rent the film out from the video shop for me and my friends to watch. It was THE film of 1996, and everyone in my social circle was talking about it. This film is like marmite: you really either ...  Read the complete review

'Trainspotting' what can I say? If you havent already seen it then your missing out, this is a classic of British cinema. 'Trainspotting' is a deeply enthralling insight into the mentality of the people at the fringe of our society. The tale, set in Edinburgh, follows the lives of an unlikely group of drug addicts and associates(=. ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting is a gritty high energy film that follows the lives of a group of Scottis drug addicts who all live in Edinburghmongst the high rise flats of the rougher part of town, the side the tourists do not get to see. The film does show drug taking however in no way does it make the life of a drug addict look glamourous, ...  Read the complete review

One of the most iconic British films of the late 90's Trainspotting tells the tale of an array of characters all with one thing in common - they are part of the heroin culture in Edinburgh. The main character, Renton (Ewan McGregor) - an anti hero, of course - keeps trying to get off the drugs but gets no help from his freinds ...  Read the complete review

Trainspotting comes to the screen under the capable hand of the same writer-producer-director combination that debuted with the equally superb Shallow Grave. Whilst it may soften some of the harsher edges of Irvine Welsh's graphic and somewhat shambolic novel, it certainly never shies away from the main issues. Welsh presented his ...  Read the complete review

When I think of 90's movies, I think Pulp Fiction, Fargo, American Beauty, GoodFellas and definetly, Trainspotting. Trainspotting is a film so beautifully simple, that it's hard to sum up. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) is a twenty-something heroin addict in Edinburgh, Scotland. His whole philosophy is you can choose life ...  Read the complete review

This is a film which desperately wants to shout 'look at me ! look at me ! I'm perfectly capturing the zeitgeist !'. Ick. The whole thing stinks of a cynical attempt at whipping together elements of pop culture, pop music, and the popularisation of the serious issue of heroin abuse. And I HATE it. As no doubt ...  Read the complete review