T2 Trainspotting

Trainspotting was like jumping on an express train that goes nowhere. T2 is like waiting for a train that has gone by a long time ago. The fact that I consider this futile nostalgia and cycle to be thematized as one of the main elements of the plot and the new destinies of the old characters, is a mitigating circumstance, not redemption and quality. It's like sitting for two hours with a raffish guy who expressively explains what the ride was like in the 1990s. You listen, but in the end you are glad that you will (hopefully) never see him again. (14.02.2017)

It’s good to see them again after so long. Their characters are simply awesome and the chemistry between them still works. The Renton/Begbie restroom scene is the best one in the movie. Danny Boyle is a timeless artist and a music-video master. But... It must have been obvious to everyone that the script, the impetus for their meeting and all that came out of it, is very weak. That it puts them together by force. I wouldn’t have minded that much if the first Trainspotting wasn’t such a cult movie for me and I didn’t consider Boyle an artist who has no need for this. (27.02.2017)

I didn't expect much from it, I didn't really have much of a desire to know what was happening with Renton and his gang at the age of forty-five. In the end, I am pleasantly surprised. The question is whether the fans will see it the same way. T2 Trainspotting doesn't really have much in common with the original Trainspotting. There's Edinburgh, the old gang, drugs, a great soundtrack, and Danny Boyle's unique and captivating direction, but the atmosphere is quite different this time. Instead of carefree young lads who don't care about the future, there are depressed wrecks who have long realized that they've completely fucked up their lives and that it was good while it lasted. And the only thing they have left are memories, nostalgia, and old acquaintances who have hardly changed at all. T2 Trainspotting is actually quite sad, but it's a truthful film about how one can't escape the past and oneself, and that one can either give up or take life as it is, and as such, it works brilliantly. (16.05.2017)

I don't know what Danny Boyle intended to do with this sequel to the original Trainspotting, but unfortunately, he didn't manage to get rid of the nostalgia that tends to run through all sequels, perhaps across all cinemas around the world. And the more years since the first movie, the more nostalgic these sequels tend to get. Trainspotting included. (06.09.2017)

A bunch of unlikeable characters return to the scene and it's pretty boring. Instead of drugs, they drop a couple of beers at most, the humour has disappeared, there are no interesting scenes and the fact that I had to see the film three times to get a positive report card doesn't do much either. 50% (30.05.2017)