8 reasons why diehard fans will love Trainspotting 2

As you’d expect, Begbie is a tour de force throughout T2. He’s out of jail, out of touch (he can’t handle the fact that his now teenage son’s studying hotel management, for instance) and out for revenge (watch out Renton). The hard man’s thirst for ultra violence was the foil for many of Trainspotting’s thrills and spills and the same goes for the sequel – but his character also turns in the most tender moment of the film, too. This is all the result of Begbie’s return to reality, in which he finds himself impotent (quite literally) and adrift from a family that’s getting on just fine without him, thank you very much. Robert Carlyle turns in a good performance, stalking the film like a great white shark looking for blood.