Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy film. With some great acting and one of the best scripts to surface for a while this film is an absolute must see… and you’ll be talking about for a long time to come." Evan Williams of "The Australian" gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 saying, "Ecstasy comes with the full bag of cinematic tricks... The film delivers a powerful and plausible climax." Rob Salem of "The Toronto Star" gave the film 3 stars out of 4 saying, "Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is to ecstasy what Trainspotting was to heroin." Negative reviews came from critics who noted comparisons to
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