Immensely entertaining sequel – 20 years in the waiting – to the iconic Trainspotting.
Renton (Ewan McGregor) is back having nicked the £16,000 drugs money from his best mates at the end of the original. He’s returning to Glasgow after life in Amsterdam has run its natural path. Sickboy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) are angry – but they can get over it. But not Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Unfortunately for Renton, the psychotic killer has a long memory – and just happens to have escaped from prison.
Stylish, thrilling, funny, sad, with director Danny Boyle returning to the highs and lows of the first, injecting an inevitable maturity but without, sensibly, trying to compete or emulate that earlier achievement.
Rating: 75%
Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours)
Writer: John Hodge (Trainspotting, The Beach) – based on the novels by Irvine Welsh
Main cast: Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Moulin Rouge), Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Dark Shadows), Ewen Bremner (Snowpiercer, Exodus), Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later)
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