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Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

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Lloyd has a carefree life as a raver, drug dealer and user, and he manages to escape responsibilities while he is bullied by a drug kingpin.
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

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Critics Consensus

The high never even achieves liftoff in Ecstasy, a tepid adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel that will exhaust audiences' serotonin levels long before the credits roll.

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Rob Salem Toronto Star 11/22/2012
3/4
Ecstasy is to ecstasy what Trainspotting was to heroin. Different times, different drugs, but the Scotland-set story of addiction and redemption is pretty much the same. Go to Full Review
David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) 04/26/2012
2.5/5
In the end, ECSTASY wants to have it both ways -- drugs are celebrated at the beginning of the film, and condemned -- or at least the crime connected with them is - by the end. Go to Full Review
Scott Murray Sydney Morning Herald 04/26/2012
2.5/5
One gets the feeling this director doesn't think his target audience is all that smart. Go to Full Review
Prairie Miller WBAI Radio 01/04/2013
A drug-fueled landscape impacted by the Thatcher years, characterized by Scottish working class misery and massive unemployment feeding the underground drug economy. And reflecting Welsh's own conflicting personas as cult figure, pariah and antichrist. Go to Full Review
Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com 12/28/2012
C-
Ecstasy attempts to conjure the same sense of insanity, musical muscle, and impish wit, only to stumble repeatedly as it struggles to put on a dazzling sound and light show. Go to Full Review
Sarah Ward Trespass 04/26/2012
Its fondness for the writer and the drug film genre may be evident; however neither can turn Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy into anything more than an inferior homage. Go to Full Review
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11/20/2016 Trainspotting it is not. See more 01/02/2015 I really like Trainspotting and Filth, both films based on novels by Irvine Welsh, but this much smaller film based one of his novels couldn't come close to being as good as those other two. It basically felt like a cheaper, poorer made version of Trainspotting as it used some of the same effects, unfortunately Ecstacy doesn't have the cast, director Danny Boyle, or even as a good of a story as Trainspotting does. There were parts that I liked and it has a decent soundtrack, but overall this film really pails in comparisons to the other two Welsh films that I've seen. See more 12/12/2014 Comparisons To 'Trainspotting' Made Some 15-Years Prior Is Inevitable..Different Drugs, Different Focus, Same Low Budget..This, However, Is The Lesser Known Cousin...& With Pretty Good Reason. It's Shyte!!! See more andrew k 09/17/2014 A horrible and blatant attempt to emulate a Trainspotting type film. None of it works and the least believable part is Kristin Kreuk. See more 08/21/2014 If he'd made this before trainspotting I would understand. Should have been better. See more 02/25/2014 a major let down, does not do Irvine Welsh justice See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Lloyd has a carefree life as a raver, drug dealer and user, and he manages to escape responsibilities while he is bullied by a drug kingpin.
Director
Rob Heydon
Producer
Rob Heydon, Allan Levine
Screenwriter
Rob Heydon, Matt MacLennan, Paul McCafferty, Ben Tucker
Distributor
Intandem Films
Production Co
Rob Heydon Productions
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 6, 2012, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 21, 2013
Runtime
1h 39m