Excellent

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2002)

Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" is great on many levels. First, it is a powerful anti-drug film, showing the horrors of heroin addiction. Next, a hilarious look at a group of friends and their adventures in Scotland. Finally, it is a serious study of how drugs, greed and death can tear them apart.
Ewan McGreggor is in top form as our hero, Renton. He is the most responsible out of the bunch, but his world is about to collapse from problems all related to his addiction. There is a lot of homage to Stanely Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" like little things like the writing on the wall of a club resmbling that of the "milkbar" Alex and his droogs hang out at, but also the "fire vs. fire" approach to its anti-drug message.
"Trainspotting" is a great film about looking for a way out.