I don't think so.

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2000)

The IMDb guidelines ask users, quite rightly, to refrain from gratuitously nasty comments. I have to admit that, mildly speaking, I did not enjoy THE BEACH. Suffice to say, the film's eagerness to adopt the DELIVERANCE/APOCALYPSE NOW/TAXI DRIVER mantle was compromised by its anti-septic, travel-brochure prettiness; that its megastar centrality resulted in play acting psychosis, rather than a disturbing embodiment (compare with Martin Sheen in APOCALYPSE NOW, for example); and that the film's fetishisation of youth's golden surface dazzles its professed aim of exploring its sinister undercurrents. Boyle-MacDonald-Hodge once made TRAINSPOTTING; I hope they may do so again.