Trying too hard!!

Rating: 2/10 (27 March 2006)

I don't get the fuss about this film. Granted it only really has a cult following but I watched it recently and would regard it as a pretty poorly directed and acted film. I can see what the point is - anti-drugs hoohaa etc. but there is better and more interesting ways of doing it. Trainspotting is the film this film tries to be. It's not big, it's not clever and it's not funny.
The direction is amateurish. A particular scene that is shot 'cleverly' has the old mother sitting at the breakfast table before, in rapid cuts, her breakfast is eaten...yawn! Why use rapid cuts for a scene like this? The drugs scenes don't immerse the viewer in what it's like to actually take drugs, rather all the viewer gets is a quick burst of fancy camera-work and some people dancing while being extremely happy...MDMA one suspects! An opportunity badly missed, this could be totally revamped and probably make a good film but until that day ignore this title and watch Trainspotting...really can't stress enough how disappointing this film is!