Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh, now 20 years clean from heroin, in order to look up his old friends. Spud (Ewen Bremner) is still a junkie, subsisting on odd jobs, Sick Boy (Johnny Lee-Miller) is trying to start his own brothel with a Bulgarian prostitute (Anjela Nedyalkova), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is in jail. Renton soon discovers that old habits are the hardest to break and betrayal is not so easily forgiven.
This just feels like an exercise in nostalgia. Danny Boyle could have just tweeted a "Where Are They Now" and it would have served the same purpose. The original Trainspotting is a classic and nothing was going to top it. It does give you Justice For Spud, if that's a thing you're looking for, but otherwise retreads the same ground. It's currently streaming on Starz.
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