GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

FlashCallahan It's based on a wonderful Authors book, and the poster is a blatant rip off of the most Prolific British film of the last twenty years, which just happens to be another Welsh source.The problem? The maker is no Boyle, and the star is no Obi Wan.It tries from the offset to be as hip and cool as Trainspotting, but Boyle brought out the sympathy in the main characters, and made them to a certain extent, likable.Here, they are just spoilt, and for the most part under the influence. Here Lloyd is the protagonist, and he's very annoying from the moment we meet him. The initial opening is very good, but as soon as we join Lloyd on his journey, he becomes annoying, a lot like people on the titular drug.Other characters are just as bad, and we have the bloke from Pontypool in other scenes just to bring the film back down from the ecstasy cloud.If you are a fan of Welsh, this will make you angry, because his poetic words here are trounced on.Remember, look at the poster. If you think of Trainspotting, you know to avoid this.

seanfoulkes This movie falls so far from it's intended objectives that I almost wonder if it isn't some sort of multi-layered social joke that the director is playing on his audience. The entire film from start to finish feels as if a naive & innocent thirteen year old boy wrote and directed this embarrassing excuse for a motion picture film to impress his older brother who does drugs. Other than the stylishly ripped-off poster design, there is... LITERALLY.... nothing about this film that doesn't make you constantly cringe out of embarrassment for all involved.The first batch of reviews that give this movie a 10/10 MUST BE FAKE. There is no way that a person coherent enough to read and write English could possibly view this film as a "Must see film," or "Great Cast, Great Story," or my personal favorite: "The Definitive Film about Ecstasy and Clubbing Culture."Netflix now has this film, and, just like everyone else, was drawn to it out of love for Trainspotting. After quickly looking up the IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes ratings for the film (IMDB=4.7/10, and Rotten Tomatoes has it hovering around a 14%/100) I knew I probably wouldn't get my mind blown, but I wasn't expecting a film this truly awful.From the first scene which desperately tries to capitalize on the visual aesthetic of Trainspotting, the entire movie becomes an inconsistent mess of AWFUL acting, childish dialogue, flat and borderline nonexistent narrative, and of course there's the music. This film, adapted from one of the best counter-culture authors of the 20th century, had ALL THE WORK DONE FOR IT. All they had to do was properly rip off Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, apply it to this novel, and they would have at least an AVERAGE film. The entire premise revolves around emotionally exposing the 90's underground rave/club culture, and the entire soundtrack consists of, from what I can tell, the same four bars of the most generic "club beat" I've ever heard, and it only plays in the background of these small scale pathetic "rave" sequences where it becomes obvious that the scene consists of less than 20 extras generically moving in a basement while some cheap strobe lights try to mask the films budget and attempt to make it look like a pulsing, sweating, out-of- mind ecstasy club.So my advice to you is, watch it, but only if you have a morbid curiosity to see in real-time what it feels like to watch the careers of probably everyone involved get quickly erased out of history. I can't imagine trusting director, cinematographer (if you can call him that), or ANY of the actors or writers to coherently create a low-expectation soap opera episode, much less another film. I suppose I'm glad that it was made, so people know for certain how terrible all parties involved are at their respective craft.Embarrassing. I just spent ten minutes writing this to save you the pain of this film destroying what little expectations you might have from it.

K Michaels Saw this article about Mark Blamire's design of the poster in http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/april/Was a cleaver marketing package. But the story and script in the film are very cleaver too. I have seen the film a few times and there are few films these days that are worthy of multiple viewings.Although marketed to Neds and the like, the film is about the spiritual aspect of redemption and getting another chance. Who wouldn't want another chance to change things?The cast did a wicked job of show what Ecstasy is really like. Irvine Welsh gave his stamp of approval and loved the film. I was at the Glasgow Film Festival screening and the Q+A with Mr. Welsh was a hoot!The definitive film about Ecstasy and clubbing culture.

kieran_sekuloff I am a huge fan of Irvine Welsh and particularly his book Ecstasy. Trainspotting was adapted to film as good as anyone could imagine or wish to try. Ecstasy on the other hand is the biggest load of .... that i have ever seen. The cinematography was occasionally pleasant. The fact that they missed out 2/3's of the actual story and turned the remaining 1/3 into some kind of drug romance from a perspective of someone who has possibly lived in a box for their entire life watching only Disney movies and daytime soaps whilst not understanding the culture they are trying to portray in the slightest. I found myself looking away from the screen many times with absolute embarrassment and disgust at how cliché and lame parts could be, considering Irvine Welsh writes such amazing work. The tough guy character is completely unbelievable as is the lameness of the unrealistic soppy romance film that it tries to become. "Love is adventure" on the main characters shirt, and not even as a joke, was the icing on the cake to the WORST film i have ever seen. If it was not stated that it was based on the novel it would be difficult to guess. I hope Mr Welsh chooses more wisely whom can portray his masterpieces in the future.