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May 17, 2017howeshound rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of the great movies of the past 25 years. Not pretty, but realistic and wryly funny. Robert Carlyle's Begbie is one of cinema's greatest nasty characters, up there with Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, a person you'll have met if you were brought up in the rough neighbourhood of a big city. The element of fantasy director Danny Boyle injects into the film tempers its tough message without letting the viewer totally off the hook. Acting, from everyone, is brilliant, script is impeccable, music is exactly right. A tour de force all through. Looks like a follow-up is being produced. It'll have to go some to match this.