Twenty years have passed since Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) run off with
the proceeds of a drug deal that was meant to be divvied up between himself,
Spud Murphy (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and hard man Begbie
(Robert Carlyle). The only person who did receive his share was Spud who wasted
no time in shooting-up £4K of heroin. Now Renton has returned from Amsterdam
where he has been living since leaving Edinburgh. His first task is saving Spud
from suicide and then he teams back up with his best friend Simon repaying the
4K he owed him and offering to help him, and his beautiful East European
girlfriend Veronica (Angela Nedyalkova), convert the pub his aunt left him into
a brothel. Although his relationship with Simon is still not what it was before
he left it’s when Begbie escapes from prison and discovers that he is back that
his life expectancy starts to deteriorate.
Reuniting the original cast with another great screenplay from John
Hodge and with most of the filming taking place in Edinburgh, Boyle has
succeeded in obtaining a believable 20-year gap between the two films. Scotland
has changed since the time of the first film, with a diluted form devolution
arriving since the original films release and a close run independence
referendum taking place in 2014 (and another about to be announced). Its not
the same country it was when Rent Boy and the others ran down Princes Street,
even the movies premier took place in Edinburgh and not Leicester Square. But
both the characters and Scotland are still victims of a system that neither
like nor respect but both are working hard to change this. Even more so that we
are being forced out of Europe against our will and being informed that we have
to be grateful for scrapes from the table of a man that is the political
version of Begbie.
This sequel to Danny Boyle's 1996 movie is
absolutely cracking piece of adult entertainment and a credit to its
predecessor. How anybody can fail to enjoy T2 Trainspotting (2017) is beyond
me.
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