Trainspotting (1996)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Best movie ever!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

DEPRESSING JUNKIES IN A DEPRESSING FILM!!! what a terrible overrated Piece of crap!!! I just wanted all the VILE JUNKIES TO DIE!!! nothing else to say????? Utter garbage & i HATED EVERY CHARACTER in the film

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. To be honest i watched first the sequel and then the original and i gotta say i was suprised how bad the first film was just like the second one. Most of the things that happen in this movie were so weird and just unbelievable stupid like one person going threw the freaking toilet or just cursing after cursing, drugs after drugs and just going and going and basically nothing good overall for me to enjoy plus i don't get why the movie is even ranked so high in the Top 250 and why it even won some awards i mean it was just horrible and pretty weird stupid. (0/10)

I remember I use to go to my grandparents apartment when I was a kid, and going into my uncles old room at the time i remember seeing this poster of the movie trainspotting and I wanted to watch the movie but at the time i was very young and my parents wouldn't let me watch it just yet. Within a year ago I saw it on netflix and I had to watch it since i remember my uncle having the poster. When I watched it I was hooked. From start to finish I couldn't take my eyes off of it. The story caught my attention and I was addicted. As the movie ended I was amazed at what I had just watched! It was funny, depressing, crazy! A movie that can not be forgotten by anyone who loved this movie! 10/10 FLAT OUT AMAZING!!!!!

Trainspotting is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Sitting somewhere between glorious and spectacular it encompasses some of the best direction, acting and music choices. It's dirty, gritty but most importantly human. Cinema should not be easy- some of the most loved and adored films are those which butt heads with the audiences morals. (e.i. Pulp fiction, Leon)As a Brit it is almost a right of passage to watch this film but that may be the films downfall. A lot of the comedy and key elements are centered to British society. Then again British films never are very universal. In short Trainspotting is a gift to cinema and tackles the difficult subject matter with grace and in a way which is accessible to the audience (at leas the British audience) I can not recommend this movie more, especially in the new age tidal wave of passable Hollywood movies.