Limitless (2011)
Eddie Morra, played by Bradley Cooper, is a writer who's missing inspiration and motivation to finish his book. He's struggling for money and soon his long time girlfriend dumps him, so life is not exactly easy for him. He meets the brother of his ex-wife who claims to be working for a drug company and who offers Eddie a pill that should help with his inspiration and motivation problems. The pill is a drug that supposedly activates the unused capasity of human brain. As Eddie's choices are running out, he decides to take the pill and sure enough it gives him the ability to instantly access anything he has ever come across, kind of like a super human brain. He ends up finishing his book, cleaning up his life and helping his land lord's wife with her legal studies after which he also manages to sleep with her. But as the drug wears off the reality hits him in the face and he needs to get more, much more. There on he becomes an over night sensation in the business world making money faster than anyone before, but the drug has it's side effects. The story is quite good actually, though the script could have been a bit better as it keeps the intriguing idea in quite common areas. That's too bad as it could have taken a deeper look into the power of the mind, but guess that wouldn't have been as entertaining then. This is a solid popcorn thriller, you don't need to use your brain too much as you just watch Eddie use his. The cast is quite great, Bradley Cooper does a solid job and portrays both sides of the drug quite well. Abbie Cornish and Rober De Niro also do a good job and Andrew Howard as Gennady, the Russian mafia thug, is quite brilliant. Nothing to complain about the looks and the style either, nothing special for sure, but not bad either. So it's a well made movie of an intriguing idea, but too bad it keeps it so superficial it ends up being a bit meaningless. Didn't get bored as it was fairly fast paced, but didn't leave much to go home with.
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