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
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