T2 Trainspotting

Twenty years after Trainspotting turned Irvine Welsh's Leith junkies into icons of 90s British cinema, Danny Boyle brought the old crew back for T2 Trainspotting. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns from Amsterdam to a Scotland that has changed, and so has he. The reunion is not warm. Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) is running a failing pub and blackmail schemes, Spud (Ewen Bremner) is still fighting heroin, and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) walks out of prison with a score to settle. Boyle shoots it with the same restless energy as the 1996 film, but the tone is heavier, more elegiac. The budget was $18 million and the film grossed $41.7 million worldwide, a solid return for a sequel two decades late. Critics were mixed to positive, with a 6.9/10 average from users. It works best as a companion piece, less a victory lap than a reckoning.[edit]