A funny but dramatic piece on drug fuelled Scotsman

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2014)

Trainspotting(based on the book by Irvine Welsh) is just a Great movie and one which many consider a cult classic which blends comedy and drama, darkness and light heartedness and also show's you the perspective of the drug user and how he thinks and acts and then what a whole group of them can be like. An excellent movie with potential to rise higher and here is why I think so below.
We'll start with the story which is well different to many other Drama's in the sense it nearly could have a little comedy genre under it's title as some parts can be quite hilarious. The film is also very serious as well and as you will see if you watch it, part's can be hard hitting and you see the hard effect drugs have on the addicts and the one's they love as well. I loved the ending I am sure you will too as out of the bleakness some parts can be happy and in a certain way philosophical too, with Ewan McGregor's character showing us his mind and what he thinks' about life and it's adventure's.
Danny Boyle the director and future Oscar winner(he won for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009), does a great job here and make's the fine actors he has at his disposal even more dramatic and his artistic vision I think came off the way he wanted it too. The screenplay is fantastic and all thanks to John Hodge who is unknown in truth but this film wouldn't be what it is without it really. The film's set's are also fantastic and the heroin dens are superbly set out to make the film authentic and a strange city in Edinburgh which you really ever connect with drug addicts.
McGregor is great in the main role and even his voice as the voice- over is fantastic too. The supporting cast are also fabulous with particular praise going to Robert Carlyle and his fairly insane character who seriously should not be angered. There isn't really a truly clear villain in this but you could say that in the end the drugs were the villain stopping the characters from living a truly normal life and whenever any of them try to give up, they get sucked back in again.
If any bad come's from this film in a critical sense it is well, well, it is hard to find wrong's really but I guess at the beginning there is the humour part of it but from the middle till the end the film get's very serious. I won't write too much because it is hard to be critical, this isn't my favourite film of ALL time but nonetheless it is still hard to criticise.
Recommend the film for those who like a film that is drug fuelled and that makes the world seem dark then bright and then back again to being bleak. I think many won't like the drug part because it has serious drug taking and a lot of swearing so not for those who don't appreciate 18 rated films but generally if not I think anyone who like any films can love this.
Overall it was safely Great, it wasn't quite near being superb in my opinion but nonetheless pulls away from just being very good. It has potential to be much better but that is for you to work out, it is a film where you can sit and sit back well and just enjoy an excellent piece of Drama.