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.

| Jan 4, 2013

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.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 28, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 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.

| Apr 26, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 26, 2012

One gets the feeling this director doesn't think his target audience is all that smart.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 26, 2012

A crass and shallow exploration of a potentially interesting topic, which makes for one downer of a cinematic trip.

| Apr 26, 2012

Only those still clubbing on ecstasy are likely to enjoy this but then they love everything.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2012

Ecstasy proved itself to be resoundingly more soporific than serotonin enhancing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2012

Ultimately disappointing, thanks to some dodgy performances, irritating characters and a hackneyed, seen-it-all-before script that has nothing new to say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2012

Getting a fix on reality is the challenge in this exploration of truth, lies & ecstasy set in Edinburgh drug & club scene.. captures the claustrophobic essence of the scene it depicts in a world without light

| Apr 20, 2012

The film is supposed to be a transformational romance going from the love of ecstasy to the ecstasy of love but the two leads can't manage it any more than the director.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2012

Not so much chemical romance as serious downer, it all seems so old.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2012

You can hear the people talk above the loud music. It would be so much better if you couldn't.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2012

There's referencing and then there's photocopying, and Ecstasy screams "toner low".

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2012

The movie's low-level chat about uppers (boy, you wouldn't give this movie a nickel for its small talk) does little to peddle Welsh's undoubted brilliance.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2012

Whatever the title says, this is most definitely not Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy, but an agonisingly watered-down imitation, a long, languid come-down after the frenetic buzz of Trainspotting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2012

The low budget is not enough to excuse the ineptitude on show. Avoid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2012

Billy Boyd's distinctly un-Pippin turn as a psycho drug dealer aside, there's little of interest in this misjudged, miswritten mess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 18, 2012

Clearly has affection for the source material and the cinematic subgenre it reflects, which is probably why it's so terrible.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2012