the best british film ever??

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2003)

yes. This film is absolutely fantastic, great soundtrack, great cast and a great script. The heroin addicts in this film are scumbags, liars, cheats and violent to boot but they are played so charmingly by Mcgregor and co that we grow to love them, all of them besides Robert Carlyle's menacing Begbie. This is a film that is completely anti-drugs but instead of preaching the message that they are wrong we see that they are wrong through the experiences of the gang and we almost understand why they are addicted to this life ruining drug. A dead baby, a good guy turned bad in tommy and a skag deal later you look back and think "this is one hell of a film." Spiky, cool, controversial, terrifying, hilarious, thought-provoking, disturbing and charming, trainspotting takes you through a roller-coaster ride of emotions experienced while watching all of them getting closer and closer to self-destruction in the junkie-limbo which ends in Renton deciding to CHOOSE LIFE.