Memorable, crazy movie

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Sorry to say as I am a huge fan of Irvine Welsh - this was utter shite. He should be embarrassed and pray that it disappears off the face of the planet. Don't waste 99 minutes of your life hoping it will get better - it won't.An earlier review said that this was a great film in it's own right. I think they may have been on ecstasy at the time. This film was full of clichés, bad acting and predictable outcomes about an absolute loser. Don't know what age he was trying to play but a 40+ year old nightly pill popping clubber is a creepy loser and to be avoided. Yet despite that he managed to pull Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lane from Smallville). Ironically she leaves her rich handsome husband, as he is obviously evil, to take up with the jobless, pill dealing eejit. They then go clubbing each day for the next couple of weeks, popping pills and spending the day on a come-down wondering whether or not their love was real? Who cares, I was praying they popped some bad e to end this garbage.As for Billy Boyd . . . His acting may have been great as he looked exactly like the scum you'd want to punch square in the face that neds about Glasgow's East end.Bad characters, bad acting, bad storline. Irvine you should hang your head in shame - seen better high-school productions.

Being a devoted reader of Irvine Welsh novels, I was looking forward to seeing this film. Sadly, I wish I'd never bothered wasting money on the DVD. In hindsight, money would have been better spent purchasing Luke warm pish off a vagrant and throwing it at the wall where I project my movies. Not that I'd choose to spend my spare time like this, but I'd probably get more out of the experience.So what's wrong with this film? The acting, weak, like an episode of EastEnders, or a latte made with skimmed milk and absent of any actual coffee. The dialogue, would have been better if it had been pulled from Eric Carle's literary classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. "On Monday he ate through one Apple. But he was still hungry."The characters, completely unbelievable. Take the main protagonist for example, a 30+ year old that wants to do pills all the time? Really!? Yeah, maybe if he was 18.The cinematography, cliché'd, trying too hard to be trendy, ended up looking like a dodgy 90's music video.The soundtrack, nothing of note here. Obviously selected by someone who has no clue about dance music and their last encounter of it involved The Shamen.Also, besides the title, I'm not sure what similarity this was supposed to have to the book. Now the problem remains, what should I do with the useless DVD itself? - I can't really put it up on ebay for some poor sod to buy, I'm not a c***.

I recently spent a month in bed due to surgery and was desperate for entertainment of any kind. My wife and I sat down to watch this flick and from the beginning it had ominous tones of wasting my time. All along I was trying to escape the feeling that this movie was written on-the-fly by a pair of 7 year olds trying to impress their families at a reunion.I am desperate to think of something positive to say! The sound quality was atrocious, sets were clutter and noise, all the characters felt wooden and dead. I have been impressed by Billy Boyd in the past but he was not able to overcome the writing, Kristin Kreuk is just name-important enough that she was wasted, and Adam Sinclair should consider roles that do not require acting skills.

I saw this in Toronto at the North by Northeast (NXNE) festival. It took me back to my university days in England when I attended a few all night raves and witnessed some of the prevalent drug culture that surrounds such events. The cinematography and music was just right and made you feel that you were inside the dance clubs experiencing the atmosphere and excitement. I enjoyed the performances of Adam Sinclair, Carlo Rota and Billy Boyd who all played opposing neurotic characters. The movie highlighted the temporary perceived highs of ecstasy while showing how the reality of life can be a real downer. After watching the movie it made me appreciate all the work that was undertaken behind the scenes to get the funding and cast together which took over a decade!