John Holden Imagine a high-school film project where someone films a bunch of friends going about their lives: clubbin', dating, working at their part-time jobs, clubbin', hanging out, doing drugs, talking about going clubbin', talking about feelings and shi', clubbin ...No need for a script/ plot/ story because your friends are so interesting that everything they do and say is just, uh, interesting; nobody will get lost because the characters talk to the camera - and think out loud for the camera; you know what's happening because everyone yells and jumps around.Boring, below amateurish. A complete waste of time.

Richard McConnell "The Best Movie of the 90's" "The Welsh Trainspotting"....Aye, right! I went into this movie with pretty high expectations, and it was all downhill from there.This movie was supposed to be this archetypal movie on the drug culture of the early 90's, and was going to allow us all to see inside this scene, and shatter the media's preconceptions following the moral panic which followed the death of Leah Betts in 1995. Unfortunately it has fallen a long way short. Where Trainspotting was able to treat you like an adult on the subject, and potential problems that surround drugs, this just provided us with some schmaltzy tale of the wonder of drugs, and how it can like, you know, like totally open your mind. Cue some guff about Bill Hicks, and Howard Marks ad nausea. It is painfully bad at times. I mean, the scene at the end between Lulu and her Auntie actually made me laugh out loud.Now maybe I am just a cynic, but the way Jip leads us through this tale is like listening to THAT Acid frazzled guy you once met at a house party, who talks to you about how "the man" is holding us back, and how Acid has released him from the strains of modern society. You just wanna shake some sense into him, and ask him to leave the premises.The script was a real problem for me, because where Trainspotting had Irvine Welsh's excellent book to cite from, this is written and directed by Justin Kerrigan. The words "Jack of all trades, master of none" come to mind. You can see where his inspiration comes from, particularly in the style of narration from main character Jip (which sets the main character in a social situation where he speaks directly to the camera, and outlines what is going through his mind as the scenario plays out) The problem with this is that some of the speeches to camera are just painful to watch. Mainly this comes down to a lack of empathy for Jip, but they are so desperate to sound philosophical that they just end up sounding like your average A-Level drama project. The direction is fine, and the intentions are good, but it is so lacking in any integrity that you start to wonder what the hype is about.Saying that though, it is not all bad. There are moments which are genuinely very amusing, and entertaining. Moff is the highlight of the movie for me. For an independent movie it also managed to attract a high numbers of quality British actors/actresses, which maybe outlines why there was such a buzz about the movie.Best movie of the 90's? Not by a long shot, but if you're looking for a solid Sunday night movie, then this might just be your bag. Inevitably though, the movie is flawed by the hype that surrounds it.

colagreen3 "Human Traffic" is set in Cardiff, Wales, UK and tells the story of British drug and club culture during the nineties. The film follows five friends in their twenties and we observe the characters' lifestyle over a weekend period. All of the characters live tedious lives during the week and use the weekend as an opportunity to escape their misery. The group of friends includes Jip (John Simm) who is sexually paranoid. Koop (Shaun Parkes) is suspicious of his girlfriend cheating on him. Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington) is fed up with men following a number of bad relationships. Nina (Nicola Reynolds) is eager to introduce her seventeen year old brother to drugs and Moff (Danny Dyer) is unemployed and dependant on his parents. The characters were well introduced in the opening scenes and as the plot unfolded the story developed their individual traits. All five are very authentic and true to life. Their weekend is not complete without drugs, clubs and parties. I can guarantee you will either know or have met people similar to them, and the five of them have a lot in common which brings them together. The film was written and directed by Justin Kerrigan who is from Cardiff. I can only imagine that the film tells the story of past experience he has gone through. I was very shocked when I discovered this was his first feature length film and even more surprised that he's not done much since. Jip (Simm) is the lead character in this film and he delivers an excellent performance. He has an equal amount of both dialogue and narration. I often feel narration in films is only used because the writer had struggled to put it into dialogue. However, I didn't feel it with this, as the narration from Jipps character felt very real. He constantly had thoughts on his mind and narration worked much better to portray this than the dialogue would have."Human Traffic" has a lot of energy in it and has a level of madness which makes the genre a light hearted comedy. I had no idea what direction the film was going in as there were various sub-plots and comedy skits from all five of the characters, which I was very entertained by. The language in the dialogue is very realistic and the actors do a fantastic job as well. My only one complaint is that only one of the main characters actually seemed to be Welsh. The rest of the cast without involving the extras appeared to sound very English. I suppose this is better than them attempting a poor Welsh accent, and maybe they deliberately used English actors to make English people relate to. Alternatively, they probably couldn't find any Welsh actors that suited the role. This isn't something I'd recommend to everyone as it doesn't have a wide target audience. I would suggest young people who experienced the club culture especially in the 90s in Britain would be particularly attracted to this film. However, I was very entertained by it and I could relate to the characters very well. Human Traffic is however a post-modern film and what I enjoyed the most was the authenticity and hilarity.

pcppirate It takes a lot for a movie to reach the already numb particles of my brain which have not already been tapped out due to the overcharge and redoredoredocopycopycopy world of movies. But this movie has made it onto my 'Magic Movies' list. To become a 'magic movie', it must leave every string of my being quivering in that which I can only define as 'bliss' and 'complete satisfaction'. This movie has tapped into the fibers of how my mind thinks and if not for the deeply personal bond my head and the head of whoever made this shares, it would look like another 'dead rave scene' movie from back when the 90's exploded with its Ecstasy craze. This is not how the movie came off to me at all. It's reached into me and pulled up something that I thought was dead for a very long time and pushed me as far as to give it a critique of my own. I forgot how long it's been since I've seen something that left me feeling this good inside. I strongly suggest seeing this movie.