Ecstasy

Ecstasy 2011

• Director: Robert Heydon
• Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh
• Cast: Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Carlo Rota, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Stephen McHattie
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Billy Boyd – Lord of the Rings, et al, Macbeth, Stone of Destiny
• The others, probably somewhere
• Why? Working class, Scotland
• Seen: 31 May 2019      

       Lloyd (Sinclair) is a drug courier and a raver. It’s a sleazy world the world of druggies – dealers and takers. Sleazy people. But we know that, not from our own reality (not mine, anyway) but from other films like this.

       There must be a moral to the story here somewhere? Even sleazy druggies can be kind to their dear old drunken widowed da? Drug bosses are violent? True love can be found at a rave party?

       What a dreary film. What a load of clichés. What an unlikeable main character/narrator. The only one worth watching is Billy Boyd. And the general Edinburgh atmosphere. For that it gets

2 * of 5