A junkie film that bites

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2002)

I've seen a lot of films that are either pro or most of the time anti-drugs, this film is neither.
The film makers just want to tell a simple story of a junkie, Renton, played very well by Ewan McGregor, who struggled to get out from Glasgow's drug scene and in the process fighting the gravitational pull of his friends and the drug itself. No preaching and that made this film wonderful.
The portrayal of drug use and effects of its depravity are disturbing and surreal and fresh owing to Danny Boyle's style of shaky camera movements.

Robert Carlyle's performance as Begbie is brilliant, even though most of the times I don't quite understand what he is talking about because the dialogue is extremely "Welsh" (from author Irvine Welsh).
Worth watching: 10/10