Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

bjarias 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).

Akeel Mughal 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***.

ThatPRThing I saw this in LondonHighly recommended.This film really touched me with the hard hitting scenes about drug and alcohol abuse, it shows you the real side to the affect people have on their family's and friends. I really emotionally connected to the film with the scene with his dad and his dad drinking and being abusive, yet he still has so much compassion for him and understanding in the relationship ,the bond so strong nothing could come between them. It was so magical as though someone had taking a piece from my life and put it on film. I would recommend this film for everyone to go and watch as I think so many people will connect with the film and see why everyone deserves a second chance.I wasn't sure if I would like the movie as I was a huge fan of Trainspotting and also Welsh's work but it totally blew me away. Hayden's direction manages to convey a real sense of the brutal underworld involved in the drug culture while unfolding the rather unconventional love story at the same time. Great performances from Sinclair and Kreuk but Billy Boyd simply stole the show for me (think Spud from Trainspotting meets Donkey from Shrek).Having read the book I think that Hayden and McCafferty eloquently captured the essence of the book and incorporated some really touching emotional scenes with Lloyd and his dying father, adding a slightly softer side to the movie. I'll be going to see this again and again and predict that it becomes as big a success as Trainspotting.Director, Rob Heydon captured the clubbing experience amazingly well! The acting was realistic, the actors nailed their characters and the lives of people in the clubbing scene. Having seen the trailer, I immediately was compared Ecstasy to Trainspotting. However, after watching an interview with Irvine Welsh on Vimeo, I understood the the first 20 minutes set up with a nod to Trainspotting, then the love story takes off. This is a different story - A love story, not a buddy film. Some comments on here did not get that this is a different film. The use of Cinema Verite is a nod to the French New Wave and helped bring the audience closer to the characters and experience the story. I felt like I was in the club. There is amazing chemistry between Adam Sinclair (Lloyd) and Kristin Kreuk (Heather). Billy Boyd (Woodsy) is worth the price of admission alone. He is hilarious. Great film !!

J. Davis If you are wondering what my summation above means then you most definitely belong in the same amateur film club as the writers of all of those glowing reviews. The fact that they put the Irvine Welsh name in the film title is an abomination. I was around in the 90's in the US club scene and have swallowed an uncountable number of E tabs during that time. I have also read Welsh's book and when I combine that with my own life experiences it makes me want to seek out this hack "director" Rob Heydon & turn him into a mute.When I consider how magnificent Boyle's adaptation of Trainspotting was and how gritty & real it was to the point that I often thought to myself wow the guy behind this had to be an actual addict, the surreal actualities that were involved. I'm also a recovering heroin addict(clean for 8 years)so I suppose you can say I have a good deal of insight into these two topics. Getting back to the real point, to the real problem of the huge void of reality & lack of reverse perspective in this film Ecstasy. I believe the only people keeping this film from completely drowning are young people who believe life is all fun & games, that the party never stops. People that have no perspective on what good film is that are simply drawn into the light of the drug content. Those who refuse to see the dark implications involved as their brain is slowly getting damaged pill by pill, the extreme depression, CNS complications & suicidal tendencies growing stronger by the TAB.