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How The Herald reviewed the original Trainspotting movie
THAT much-hyped Scottish film Trainspotting, based on the Irvine Welsh novel, which had its world premiere this week in Glasgow and Edinburgh, is aptly summed up in the late Sam Goldwyn's words: "It's more than magnificent – it's mediocre.'' Even that is a kindness. Juvenile, inane, asinine, puerile would be a more accurate description.
