Ecstasy (II) (2011) User Reviews

Spotting what?

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 17 December 2012]

Even if no one tells you, that the novel this is based on is by the same author who wrote "Trainspotting", you'd get that after a couple of minutes for sure. It's too early to really tell, but Ewan McGregor this ain't. Still the central performance is really good and you get the ever beautiful K. Kreuk.

Story-wise you shouldn't expect much. Very predictable and some cliché scenes, with a bad guy who relishes in his role, but almost gets underplayed by the characters inabilities. Our main character is as mostly in this cases one of his own worst enemies. Decent little thriller that has all the right ingredients, but never fully takes off

I liked the book better.

[patrick-566-621840 · 5/10 · 16 June 2019]

Normally a book has more depth. So does this. However the producers felt they had to rewrite the plot to make a better movie, they where wrong!

"Ma' drugs are better than yours!"

[g-white723 · 6/10 · 1 March 2016]

Billy Boyd playing DJ 'Woodsy' yells that immortal line while in hospital as nurses try to give him some of their sedatives.

I quite liked this film and its underrated because the acting and script are pretty good. Adapted from a book by famous novelist Irvine Welsh, this film is about the ecstasy culture of the 90's. There have been a few films which capture dance club scene better than this, but in my opinion this is still a good film and its more than just about getting high. Its about love and death and family and friends.

Adam Sinclair (Lloyd) and Kristin Kreuk (Heather) are the lead actors and their relationship forms the heart of the movie. Its actually quite difficult show a believable love story. Its so easy to get it wrong. This pair did a good job. The club scenes were pretty good and I generally liked the soundtrack, and it captured the party drug taking well.

I liked the fact that the actors and script didn't elevate the characters into anything other than just ordinary people. Lloyd doesn't have job and Heather is unhappily married and works for the anti-narcotics association whilst raving at weekend. Yes that put a wry smile on my face! There are extraordinary people around them (gangsters) and drug trafficking storyline to keep story interesting but basically this is a romance with some drugs thrown in. Its the love drug vs the real thing sort of story. 6/10

Sweet Jesus what a pathetic example of film.

[seanfoulkes · 1/10 · 20 July 2013]

This movie falls so far from it's intended objectives that I almost wonder if it isn't some sort of multi-layered social joke that the director is playing on his audience. The entire film from start to finish feels as if a naive & innocent thirteen year old boy wrote and directed this embarrassing excuse for a motion picture film to impress his older brother who does drugs. Other than the stylishly ripped-off poster design, there is... LITERALLY.... nothing about this film that doesn't make you constantly cringe out of embarrassment for all involved.

The first batch of reviews that give this movie a 10/10 MUST BE FAKE. There is no way that a person coherent enough to read and write English could possibly view this film as a "Must see film," or "Great Cast, Great Story," or my personal favorite: "The Definitive Film about Ecstasy and Clubbing Culture."

Netflix now has this film, and, just like everyone else, was drawn to it out of love for Trainspotting. After quickly looking up the IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes ratings for the film (IMDB=4.7/10, and Rotten Tomatoes has it hovering around a 14%/100) I knew I probably wouldn't get my mind blown, but I wasn't expecting a film this truly awful.

From the first scene which desperately tries to capitalize on the visual aesthetic of Trainspotting, the entire movie becomes an inconsistent mess of AWFUL acting, childish dialogue, flat and borderline nonexistent narrative, and of course there's the music. This film, adapted from one of the best counter-culture authors of the 20th century, had ALL THE WORK DONE FOR IT. All they had to do was properly rip off Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, apply it to this novel, and they would have at least an AVERAGE film. The entire premise revolves around emotionally exposing the 90's underground rave/club culture, and the entire soundtrack consists of, from what I can tell, the same four bars of the most generic "club beat" I've ever heard, and it only plays in the background of these small scale pathetic "rave" sequences where it becomes obvious that the scene consists of less than 20 extras generically moving in a basement while some cheap strobe lights try to mask the films budget and attempt to make it look like a pulsing, sweating, out-of- mind ecstasy club.

So my advice to you is, watch it, but only if you have a morbid curiosity to see in real-time what it feels like to watch the careers of probably everyone involved get quickly erased out of history. I can't imagine trusting director, cinematographer (if you can call him that), or ANY of the actors or writers to coherently create a low-expectation soap opera episode, much less another film. I suppose I'm glad that it was made, so people know for certain how terrible all parties involved are at their respective craft.

Embarrassing. I just spent ten minutes writing this to save you the pain of this film destroying what little expectations you might have from it.

The worst novel to film adaptation i have seen

[kieran_sekuloff · 2/10 · 4 May 2012]

I am a huge fan of Irvine Welsh and particularly his book Ecstasy. Trainspotting was adapted to film as good as anyone could imagine or wish to try. Ecstasy on the other hand is the biggest load of .... that i have ever seen. The cinematography was occasionally pleasant. The fact that they missed out 2/3's of the actual story and turned the remaining 1/3 into some kind of drug romance from a perspective of someone who has possibly lived in a box for their entire life watching only Disney movies and daytime soaps whilst not understanding the culture they are trying to portray in the slightest. I found myself looking away from the screen many times with absolute embarrassment and disgust at how cliché and lame parts could be, considering Irvine Welsh writes such amazing work. The tough guy character is completely unbelievable as is the lameness of the unrealistic soppy romance film that it tries to become. "Love is adventure" on the main characters shirt, and not even as a joke, was the icing on the cake to the WORST film i have ever seen. If it was not stated that it was based on the novel it would be difficult to guess. I hope Mr Welsh chooses more wisely whom can portray his masterpieces in the future.

The Opposite of Ecstasy

[themissingpatient · 1/10 · 10 August 2012]

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.

What eh loadeh shite!

[akeelm_uk · 3/10 · 1 October 2012]

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***.

I fell asleep on Ecstacy

[rgiblett66 · 1/10 · 24 April 2012]

Just went to see Ecstacy last night... luckily I had a free pass to a media screening of it as if I had spent money on seeing this rubbish I would have felt pretty ripped off! Where to begin? Trainspotting was great; funny, topical, great acting and well made. None of these can be attributed to Ecstacy, it seems like a weird Trainspotting rip-off, very dated (nostalgic?) and none of the threads of the characters stories seem to go anywhere. Wooden performances, uninteresting storyline, terrible writing, the only saving grace for this turkey of a film is the lovely views of Edinburgh... makes me wanna visit! I wanted to enjoy this film, but the dialog was so cringe-worthy, the acting sub-standard and the story so utterly boring that I just gotta say avoid at all costs, don't even bother watching on DVD.

Loved the book and the film

[cgenuardi · 10/10 · 2 September 2012]

This is a great adaptation based on the book by Irvine Welsh. Although some of the details have changed to work for storytelling, I really enjoyed it. I saw an interview with Irvine Welsh talking about the differences between this and Trainspotting and I had to see it. I saw the film with a large group of friends and we all decided we loved it. Especially Adam and Billy. Billy Boyd is hilarious as Woodsy a nutter who ends up taking too much and going to a mental hospital.

I loved the music and the love story with Heather. It was totally realistic - like it has happened to friends of mine. It was a wonderfully strange, yet great film. I strongly suggest you see it with friends and see what characters you like best. There are some funny bits and sad parts but overall a great story.

Avoid Avoid Avoid

[deanpjackson_1973 · 1/10 · 22 August 2012]

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.

You won't be Ecstatic after seeing it...

[natashabowiepinky · 1/10 · 4 March 2014]

Yep, not Ecstasy... but Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy. He must be so proud to have his name associated with this film. I suggest he has his head tested.

There is hardly anything worse than films about 'tough guys' who get all 'gooey' by the end. Here, our lead, to put it bluntly, is a pill-popping moron. He deals in drugs, probably ruining hundreds of lives in the process... but he spends most of it on his infirm father.. so that's alright then. He also owes thousands to a drug lord, who if this film was smarter would recognise him as the hilarious, over-the-top caricature he is. Sadly though, it doesn't and attempts to make his comical behaviour scary... to deadening effect.

Just look at those numpties on the dancefloor, mouths agape and jumping up and down with their head rocking. Is this what is classified as 'cool' these days? If so, I'm so glad I'm a stay at home, pipe and slippers kinda guy. And listen to the things they say... is any of it enlightening? Stirring? Thought-provoking in any way? Nope... this is a collection of the most boring, shapeless misanthropes I've seen in many a motion picture. I thought drugs, apart from making you feel good (temporarily at least), also made you the life and the soul of the party.

Here, it seems to have the reverse effect, these people are tedious in the extreme with clear heads, and suicidally dull when off their heads. It all adds up to the filmic equivalent of spending the evening at a dinner party with a bunch of trained monkeys. Throwing poo at each other. The final insult is the poster, which is a direct reference (or rip-off) to the one for Trainspotting. Now I thought that movie was a tad overrated, but comparing THIS to it is breathtakingly cheeky.

Oh, I forgot... the author of both is one Irvine Welsh. Oh well, he's only got himself to blame then... 1/10

Truly Awful

[kylere · 1/10 · 21 August 2012]

I recently spent a month in bed due to surgery and was desperate for entertainment of any kind. My wife and I sat down to watch this flick and from the beginning it had ominous tones of wasting my time. All along I was trying to escape the feeling that this movie was written on-the-fly by a pair of 7 year olds trying to impress their families at a reunion.

I am desperate to think of something positive to say! The sound quality was atrocious, sets were clutter and noise, all the characters felt wooden and dead. I have been impressed by Billy Boyd in the past but he was not able to overcome the writing, Kristin Kreuk is just name-important enough that she was wasted, and Adam Sinclair should consider roles that do not require acting skills.

Every single good review is from a 1st timer. No Surprise is it?

[Thrill_KillZ · 2/10 · 11 August 2012]

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.

Really poor film

[deansmith497 · 1/10 · 19 October 2013]

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.

Irvine Welsh Should be Embarrassed

[lauren-campbell-818-357064 · 2/10 · 15 October 2013]

Sorry to say as I am a huge fan of Irvine Welsh - this was utter shite. He should be embarrassed and pray that it disappears off the face of the planet. Don't waste 99 minutes of your life hoping it will get better - it won't.

An earlier review said that this was a great film in it's own right. I think they may have been on ecstasy at the time. This film was full of clichés, bad acting and predictable outcomes about an absolute loser. Don't know what age he was trying to play but a 40+ year old nightly pill popping clubber is a creepy loser and to be avoided. Yet despite that he managed to pull Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lane from Smallville). Ironically she leaves her rich handsome husband, as he is obviously evil, to take up with the jobless, pill dealing eejit. They then go clubbing each day for the next couple of weeks, popping pills and spending the day on a come-down wondering whether or not their love was real? Who cares, I was praying they popped some bad e to end this garbage.

As for Billy Boyd . . . His acting may have been great as he looked exactly like the scum you'd want to punch square in the face that neds about Glasgow's East end.

Bad characters, bad acting, bad storline. Irvine you should hang your head in shame - seen better high-school productions.

The definitive film about Ecstasy and clubbing culture.

[kpmichaels-466-163389 · 10/10 · 4 September 2012]

Saw this article about Mark Blamire's design of the poster in http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/april/

Was a cleaver marketing package. But the story and script in the film are very cleaver too. I have seen the film a few times and there are few films these days that are worthy of multiple viewings.

Although marketed to Neds and the like, the film is about the spiritual aspect of redemption and getting another chance. Who wouldn't want another chance to change things?

The cast did a wicked job of show what Ecstasy is really like. Irvine Welsh gave his stamp of approval and loved the film. I was at the Glasgow Film Festival screening and the Q+A with Mr. Welsh was a hoot!

The definitive film about Ecstasy and clubbing culture.

Arrives over a decade too late

[tomgillespie2002 · 27 August 2012]

Adapted from one of three stories - The Undefeated - taken from Irvine Welsh's collection of three tales of chemical romance, sees a group of twenty-somethings indulging in the clubbing/pilling scene, and they hold the drug in high regard, often referring to it in terms of their connections to spirituality. They build their lives around such psychoactive explorations. Lloyd (Adam Sinclair) gets involved in drug dealing, and finds himself smuggling from Amsterdam, for local "hard- man" dealer, Solo (Carlo Rota). It of course all comes crumbling down; it wouldn't be a Welsh story if it didn't have the morality to take his characters to the depths of their situations and depravity (or though less depravity that, say, The Acid House (1998)). A Canadian girl working in Edinburgh, Heather (played by pretty/vacant Kristin Kreuk), meets Lloyd and they fall for each other under the influence of E, and they begin a saccharine, cringe-worthy, pathetic love affair. Billy Boyd's character somehow ends up institutionalised, and basically becomes Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and the other friend pops up when required. Lloyd still owes Solo money, and this causes violent crescendos. It also attempts to connect the spiritual aspects of the chemically enhanced state of euphoria associated with ecstasy, with the natural chemical brain functions that occur when in love - aww, how cute! It's all very poorly executed. The film making is uninspired, and seems to want to "borrow" many '90's cinematic tricks that were used for these kind of films (such as the other Welsh adaptation, and hugely successful Trainspotting (1996)), but they simply do not work, and to be honest, are completely dated by 21st century visuals - I mean, who really wishes to be given each characters name on the screen when, for one we don't actually care, and second, would you really do that when introducing a character half way through the film? What we can basically take from this, is that the post-modern aspects of '90's cinema are thankfully over, and this film is over a decade too late. Is the subject even relevant anymore? Or is this just a case of me no longer being in my twenties, and out-of-touch with youth culture. Perhaps, but I an still observant enough to adamantly state that this film is s**t. And for a final piece of postmodernist bulls**t, the film is marketed with exactly the same iconography as Trainspotting was sixteen years previously - pathetic.

About twelve years too late.....

[FlashCallahan · 3/10 · 25 October 2013]

It's based on a wonderful Authors book, and the poster is a blatant rip off of the most Prolific British film of the last twenty years, which just happens to be another Welsh source.

The problem? The maker is no Boyle, and the star is no Obi Wan.

It tries from the offset to be as hip and cool as Trainspotting, but Boyle brought out the sympathy in the main characters, and made them to a certain extent, likable.

Here, they are just spoilt, and for the most part under the influence. Here Lloyd is the protagonist, and he's very annoying from the moment we meet him. The initial opening is very good, but as soon as we join Lloyd on his journey, he becomes annoying, a lot like people on the titular drug.

Other characters are just as bad, and we have the bloke from Pontypool in other scenes just to bring the film back down from the ecstasy cloud.

If you are a fan of Welsh, this will make you angry, because his poetic words here are trounced on.

Remember, look at the poster. If you think of Trainspotting, you know to avoid this.

Crash back to Earth!

[Art_Of_The_Underground · 1/10 · 7 August 2013]

After being a big fan of similar products and being seduced by the smart packaging and advertisement campaigns a group of us decided (with high hopes) to indulge in an mind altering evening of Ecstasy. The initial Come Up was okay but unfortunately it took around 15-20 minutes to realize we had actually been sold a dud as it became apparent this was just a cheap imitation.

As the experience continued things got worse. Ecstasy just didn't seem quite authentic and certainly not as some of the older Ravers would remember it! Ecstasy felt watered down, it didn't have any real substance and the overall effect just seemed quite week, if not bleak!

As the night progressed we were faced with the realization that Ecstasy is actually 10-20 years past its sell by date! As the Come Down set in we felt The producers behind this product have obviously churned it out without any real passion or knowledge of the scene.

There have been better attempts to recreate the Produce of the late eighties & the nineties including Human Traffic and 24 Hour Party People (even Weekender) but If your looking to recapture the Buzz from your Raving Days then the Feeling from Ecstasy may be a bit of an anti-climax!

Ecstasy - What a surprise

[StBotolph · 8/10 · 18 April 2012]

Well...I went to the premier, I felt older and uglier than everyone else there, I had huge expectations due to the Irvine Welsh endorsement of the project, and the knowledge Trainspotting was and is the king of UK indie films , so I was set up for a miserable cold rainy Tuesday evening in South East London and remembering that the last time I walked through the doors of the Ministry of Sound, I only managed to stay in there for about 20 minutes before being ejected..(use your imagination …20 years ago I might add) , added to my fear of another deflated experience at the birth place off Vodka Jellies and Mecca of modern dance music . I took my seat and tucked into the free popcorn. The lights dimmed the film rolled and the music started, my ears pricked and after the 4 beats in a bar huge bass smashed through my eardrums and made my heart beat dance in time with it - I was back in the club on the podium semi naked smiling from ear to ear and chewing my jaw off !!

I couldn't believe how Rob Heydon has nailed the clubbing experience so well , having seen him on an interview for the film , he comes across as though he'd be better suited to directing a Surbiton church hall adaptation of 'The Good Life ' ... how wrong I was , he must have done some serious damage in his day because to interpret to this level of accuracy meant he was there ! The acting was superb, really mature actors nailing their characters , having seen a clip , I immediately was comparing Adam with Ewan Mc Gregor before Adam had even spoke a word , I needn't have bothered , Adam has huge personality that comes across very well , he looks and sounds great and he is quite obviously his own man and made this 'his' film … Another thing that was totally unexpected, in fact 'unexpectedly brilliant' was the cinematography was nothing short of top notch . I hope you like this film, if like me you were there, you can only attest to its accuracy, it walks the fine line well of showing how the drugging club culture does allow colourful imagination and frees the most repressed spirit but like any drug or alcohol fuelled experience the time to pay the piper will come and you can be sure the piper will asked to be paid when your least capable of paying him, Heydon portraits this with the reverence it deserves . Well done great film !!

Great fun - highly recommend

[jrghsolutions · 9/10 · 17 April 2012]

I was a bit apprehensive about this film as I am a massive fan of Trainspotting and felt it may let the side down. I was fortunate enough to see a pre-screening and this could not be further from the truth, it is a great film in its own right and I recommend that anyone go and see it. I saw it with my girlfriend and she really enjoyed it as well so its not just one for the lads. I enjoyed the way it shows how the tedium of middle class life can go skidding off the rails on a roller-coaster ride. It's refreshing to see a film that deals with relationships/happiness/love that doesn't have Hugh Grant turning the contents of your stomach with lines like "love really is all around"! p.s. Kristin Kreuk...well...enough said

Great movie about the Scottish rave and drug culture

[raymondshum · 9/10 · 18 June 2012]

I saw this in Toronto at the North by Northeast (NXNE) festival. It took me back to my university days in England when I attended a few all night raves and witnessed some of the prevalent drug culture that surrounds such events. The cinematography and music was just right and made you feel that you were inside the dance clubs experiencing the atmosphere and excitement. I enjoyed the performances of Adam Sinclair, Carlo Rota and Billy Boyd who all played opposing neurotic characters. The movie highlighted the temporary perceived highs of ecstasy while showing how the reality of life can be a real downer. After watching the movie it made me appreciate all the work that was undertaken behind the scenes to get the funding and cast together which took over a decade!

Awesome movie

[lynnfrancesjohnson · 10/10 · 19 April 2012]

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.

Gosh Darn it's Good

[FrankEdmonds · 9/10 · 4 April 2012]

I recently watched this film at the Vail Film Festival. This story is about, well.... it's in the title. I was not sure how I would take this at first being fearful that it would be a Trainspotting knockoff. I was very pleased that even though it is about drugs like Trainspotting, it has a unique story that stands on it's own two feet. I do fee that the first act dragged a little before the story really began moving. I have seen other reviews from old people (me being not too young myself) complaining that this should have been a nostalgic piece or should contain dub-step tracks... that is complete rubbish. I am a fan of most Genre's of EDM but I feel the tunes in this film fit very well. Other than some minor editing choices, this film delivers a great love/human story... no spoilers here. I am a fan of Trainspotting, It's all Gone Pete Tong, Go and Groove. I feel this story fits nicely into these films as far as content/story go. I hope you enjoy it too and I am excited for it to come to America.

Ecstasy rocks

[Booski1812 · 9/10 · 11 April 2012]

A little romance, a little social commentary, some decent laughs and uniformly great performances make Ecstasy well worth a look. Director Heydon has a deft hand with the camera as well as the actors, and the pace never lets up.

Adam Sinclair, Kirsten Kreuk and Billy Boyd head up a strong cast, but make a special point of catching Carlo Rota as the bad guy. Awesome.

The city of Edinburgh looks stunning in it's grittiness (and it's age old beauty) as we follow the raves, the drug deals, and the inevitable confrontations. (You'd never know it was largely shot in Canada).

Ecstasy is more than a worth successor to Trainspotting, and I'm sure Irvine Welch is proud.