T2 Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting
R
6.9
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2017

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117m

T2 Trainspotting

Summary

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Director

Danny Boyle

Adaptation, Screenplay

John Hodge

Novel

Irvine Welsh

Reviews

Rangan

Rangan

September 4, 2017

5

**To face a revenge threat!**

Okay the first film was good one. Then I thought it was unnecessary to make a sequel for it. But someone clarified that it was not made outside the novel to make money. It's indeed adapted from the sequel book of the original film's source. Though coming out 20 years later was the disadvantage. Except some praises it had received, particularly by its hardcore fans, it was average at the box office and I thought same as well.

I did not like the story. It was just a random drag, not knowing what direction to head. That's until the third act, and once all the three main characters come together, so it gets interesting with something. Like surviving from from a revenge threat. It was the actors who saved the film. Otherwise, it is not even an average as I consider now. I don't think retaining the title was a good idea, but I think it was just for its fans. Or else, a new title name would have done a decent justice to what it had narrated.

As I know, this is the director's first ever sequel and he's not getting better since his Oscar win, a decade ago. Especially the last two flicks, despite based on the very good subjects. Definitely no to the T3. Instead, I want another Oscar nod film from him. This would have been ever worse if somebody else would have made it. Yet, a watchable film, only if you had liked the first. So just think about it before going for it after seeing only positive words from a few people.

_5/10_

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$18,000,000.00

Revenue:

$41,681,746.00

Keywords

prison
friendship
based on novel or book
fight
scotland
blackmail
heroin
drug addiction
junkie
cocaine
nightclub
edinburgh, scotland
addiction
sequel
prison escape
revenge
extortion
theft
bar fight
social realism
council estate
bulgarian