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Ecstasy (2011)
What eh loadeh shite!
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***.