High intensity delivered to the vein!

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2012)

Trainspotting manages to be both hilarious, disturbing, tense, exhilarating and poignant; a heroin trip that is all style. Renton and his pals traipse the disturbing highs and low lifes of Edinburgh in the id 90's.
We watch the three junkies to get off heroin then get back on it. We follow them as they deal with their lives, surprisingly normal personal life like girlfriend and the things they will go through to keep their sordid habit afloat.
Danny Boyle, never portrays the heroin addiction of these characters as horrific, like life it is much more complicated than that. the highs of the drug are shown in beautiful imagery. We are all at once drawn to these characters lifes but also repulsed by them at the same time but importantly we care about them, which is a real testament of the writing.
The acting is of the highest order, Boyle's directing is the best it has been ever, has it really been matched by the global hit Slumdog, i don think so, with this he really hit a all time high.
Trainspotting is a charcoal blacker than black comedy of historic proportions.