T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

After all the good work pumping us through positive evolving of the group, then the big finale was just tasteless. Dunno if the team wants another piece in a future T3 but if they don't, I think they shouldn't have touched it after 20 years. At least Trainspotting 1 left a message, an answer. But this one just left a questions and an open finale.

So Begbie escapes from prison, but then just moves around Edinburgh free as a bird, as if the city is completely devoid of cops. And while making tons of enemies, it occurs to none of them to simply make a phone call to the authorities.Hm, yes, a well thought-out script. Pity Boyle settled for the first draft. As so often.A lazily cobbled-together script in the sloppiest Boyle fashion. It's as if he had the idea of doing a sequel on a Tuesday and had the first draft ready by Friday. That same Friday, not a Friday 15 fridays later as the more wise, conventional approach to film-making is. Because as a film-maker Boyle is an impulsive slob. He's got talent, but very little discipline with which to channel it properly. God only knows how he ever managed to write a good script that first time around, for the first junkie flick. Perhaps he got lucky, or maybe he was more hungry for success as a relative unknown hence more focused. Admittedly, it's also easier to start a story from scratch than to have to continue it 23 years later. Or is it the other way round?Either way, the characters' motives are muddy, confusing, their actions often seem out of character, and the plot fairly wasteful with plenty of stuff that could easily have been cut out, because comedies should last 90 minutes, not the full two hours because they're not James Bond flicks.One of the many plot-holes is the mysterious non-interest Renton and Simon show in the fact that Begbie is still out seeking revenge, and yet the two of them get caught off-guard by Begbie's extremely predictable second attempt at getting his revenge. So Renton didn't worry about Begbie after that close chase? That's the kind of writing geared toward more, how shall I put it diplomatically... "simply-arranged" viewers, not the kind of nonsense that can pass by the customs though of any half-way serious and/or experienced viewer. Yes, I'm bragging again, what the hell, it's The Age Of Brag, so I might as well join in. Yes, I'm too smart for this film.And how about the Bulgarian hooker-with-the-heart-of-gold? What a dumb cliche that is, not a real person in the slightest, hence very dull. Not to mention the predictable betrayal she perpetrates that any viewer with half a brain-cell could foresee, which means I expect every single person to have predicted that "plot-twist" well in advance. Unless they were doing the same substances as these junkie goofball characters.The movie has no spunk, it looks tired, just seems like a quick cash-grab by a director who figured that a half-attempt is more than enough when attached to a famous title. He may have been right, I don't know, haven't seen the box-office figures.If you are quite content to watch badly scripted films - as long as they entertain you - feel free to give this a go. But then again, that's the other issue: it's not very entertaining, is it? I found myself fidgety through large chunks of the film, and that's sort of not what real entertainment is about.

After "Trainspotting" left us stunned on how gripping the world of heroin addiction is, comes the next best thing: a sequel. Starring the same bunch of misfits in the capable hands of revered director Danny Boyle, "T2 Trainspotting" is a sequel that you won't want to miss!"T2 Trainspotting" takes place 20 years after the events that lead up to the original film in 1996. The boys have grown up now, but still find themselves more or less doing what they did back then. You have to love how Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller did not seem to have aged, but I think the biggest surprise was Robert Carlyle's character, Begbie, who once again showed beyond doubt to be the powerhouse of the group.I found myself going back to rewind several scenes from the movie. One of the scenes involved Begbie chasing Rent Boy who was hanging by the roof of a car while "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was playing heavily in the background. That's when I saw Boyle's touch of class and I knew in that moment I was watching a master at work. The camerawork with the car's side mirror and the frenetic close-ups were just on par in that scene.The editing was great as in all of Danny Boyle's films, especially the scenes were they guys were tripping on drugs, a very good use of lenses and projectors."T2 Trainspotting" is a sequel that had to be made and it turned out fantastic. I urge everyone go to check out the first movie if you haven't and then come back and see its sequel.

UK 2017 English (Colour); Drama (TriStar); 117 minutes (18 certificate)Crew includes: Danny Boyle (Director); John Hodge (Screenwriter, adapting Novels PORNO and TRAINSPOTTING by Irvine Welsh); Andrew Macdonald, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Bernard Bellow (Producers)Cast includes: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlisle, Kelly Macdonald, Anjela NedyalkovaA former addict (McGregor) returns to Edinburgh after 20 years to be reunited with his three junkie ex-mates (suicidal Bremner, blackmailing Miller, psycho jailbird Carlisle), and tries to make amends for betraying them back then.Long-time-in-coming sequel to 1996's cult hit is just about worthwhile; funny and repulsive in equal measure, and not for everyone.