Wonderful Movie

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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.

A favorite film... this is a film about drugs, but not only about drugs. It's a wonderful little surprise film about a beautiful love story, and redemption ("I don't want to be with you forever... I need to be with you forever."). The leads are marvelous together. Kristin Kreuk is a superb young actor, and a dream girl .. bit.ly/11dIBrp .. The entire cast is absolutely perfect. This is a terrific non-Hollywood film with few, if any flaws. And with a great film ending music track 'Movin On Up' by Primal Scream .. bit.ly/zvzqcK .. Am so glad decided to ignore the original rating numbers (and followed Kristin), it is SO much better than that (as evidenced by the fact it keeps creeping up in the ratings).

This is a truly dreadful film of what was a good book. Poorly acted with some sort of attempt at a Trainspotting style. No characters are developed in any way and the plot is almost non-existent. The accents?? It seems the film is actually Canadian which is not that surprising as most of the accents are some weird hybrid of about three different places. (With the exception of the two lead males.) The sets look like something from a seventies soap opera and any realistic atmosphere (bar and restaurants with no-one else in them) is completely lacking. As for the drug/rave thing-has anyone involved with the film ever even been to a nightclub never mind a rave. The reviews at the top are clearly from family and friends and why Irvine has put his name to such an embarrassing attempt at a film is very puzzling. One of the top five worst films I have seen.

Worst film of its genre I have seen and there are some real stinkers. Really didn't get it, at all. I have read all Irvine Welsh books, including his early works and am truly speechless. Was really looking forward to seeing it. Sacrilege! Started off o.k, then lost its way and turned into a disgracefully cheesy, poorly scripted, love story. Male character massages female character 'youve had your heart broken, I can feel it in your back' cue dance music. 'its the small things that matter, you don't talk about them'....'the small things are the big things'. WHAT! Actors with really poor dutch, Scandinavian and even Scottish accents, can do better myself! Basically just dance music punctuated by terrible 'love' dialogue and speed-ed up camera work. Genuinely had to turn it off as the dialogue was that embarrassing it make me queasy. Its the anti train-spotting and in no way resembles Irvine Welshs work. If you are expecting a Danny Boyle type or Irvine Welsh based movie you will be sorely disappointed. It contains drugs , yes, and its based in Scotland. Thats it.

A very sad excuse for a film.This film took over 10 year to make and get released. What a waste of time! Over the last decade things have changed. Yet, even if this film had been released in 2002, it still would be too late for even that time.Ecstasy might have been a little less painful to watch and done better for itself if it had been released in 1998. Instead, we here in 2012, are left watching what feels like a lost straight-to-DVD film from the 90's, that desperately tries to cash in on the success of Danny Boyle's 1996 masterpiece, Trainspotting.The talentless director must have thought his career was made when he got the rights to adapt an Irvine Welsh novel. Little did he know that, a decade later, Irvine Welsh fans would want his head on a stick for ruining Welsh's original material.There are shots where you can clearly see that the director is trying to copy shots from Trainspotting. Trainspotting is a classic in which every time you revisit the film, you are taken back to the 90's and thrown into the shoes of heroin addicts. Ecstasy lacks any original imagination, everything feels forced and watching the film is a perfect lesson in what not to do when making a film. In fact, the film is the exact opposite of it's title. It's an out-of-touch, uncomfortable viewing experience.