After passing 20 years of betraying his friends, Mark Renton, a young guy, who flees after making a big robbery with his friends, flees with the all money, leaving his friends in a bad conditions, the thing that makes their rage, returns to his home, in order to find his old friends and please them.
The quartet of gifted actors can't possibly match their youthful charisma... but they can find deeper resonance in the characters' emotional lives, a sense of lessons learned and proper amends proffered.
T2 Trainspotting has one foot firmly planted in nostalgia and the other rooted in the present, and thanks in great part to Boyle's unique, world-class talent, everything old feels new again.
While T2 may never become as iconic a film for those who lived through the first outing, it's definitely got the ability to become a firm-favourite for them... and a younger generation.
Improbably, the film vaults over most pitfalls of long-threatened sequels while evolving the delicately crafted world in the original. It's a more sober, mature film, but no less entertaining or provocative.
In a nutshell: the watchable yet somewhat sloppy T2 Trainspotting only sporadically entertains and we don't feel sorry for letting it go when the ending comes.
With a pulsing soundtrack and an ending scene that cleverly ties the whole thing back to the first picture, T2 is a sequel that is at least the equal of the revered original.
A surprisingly dark climax marked with hilariously overwrought lighting is everything to love and hate about "T2 Trainspotting" - and Danny Boyle - all at once.
