Directed by:
Danny BoyleScreenplay:
John HodgeCinematography:
Anthony Dod MantleCast:
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Anjela Nedyalkova, Shirley Henderson, Irvine Welsh, Simon Weir (more)Plots(1)
Following on two decades after the end of Trainspotting, the film sees Mark 'Rent Boy' Renton (Ewan McGregor) return to Scotland in search of his old friends Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller) and Daniel 'Spud' Murphy (Ewen Bremner). As Renton prepares for a great union, he must try to avoid the psychopathic Francis 'Franco' Begbie (Robert Carlyle) who is fresh out of prison and hell-bent on getting revenge on his former friends. (Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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A bunch of unlikeable characters return to the scene and it's pretty boring. Instead of drugs, they drop a couple of beers at most, the humour has disappeared, there are no interesting scenes and the fact that I had to see the film three times to get a positive report card doesn't do much either. 50%
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A funnily told story about a depressing reunion, twenty years on. Surprisingly, I found I liked this sequel much more, because it isn’t so focused on drugs, but on money instead. The main band of human wrecks are older and more experienced, but basically nothing has changed. Once a junkie, always a junkie. Boyle’s fantastic visuals and perfect music.
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Trainspotting was like jumping on an express train that goes nowhere. T2 is like waiting for a train that has gone by a long time ago. The fact that I consider this futile nostalgia and cycle to be thematized as one of the main elements of the plot and the new destinies of the old characters, is a mitigating circumstance, not redemption and quality. It's like sitting for two hours with a raffish guy who expressively explains what the ride was like in the 1990s. You listen, but in the end you are glad that you will (hopefully) never see him again.
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It’s good to see them again after so long. Their characters are simply awesome and the chemistry between them still works. The Renton/Begbie restroom scene is the best one in the movie. Danny Boyle is a timeless artist and a music-video master. But... It must have been obvious to everyone that the script, the impetus for their meeting and all that came out of it, is very weak. That it puts them together by force. I wouldn’t have minded that much if the first Trainspotting wasn’t such a cult movie for me and I didn’t consider Boyle an artist who has no need for this.
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It's not as strong and intense as the original film, but still, you enjoy returning to the characters, and you still let yourself be affected by the energy that Boyle exudes, whether it's through the camera, editing, or even more action-packed sequences, especially towards the end. This is no longer a film with cult status, but it's still a good film and a demonstration that sometimes your past can really mess you up.
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