Film 1: Limitless

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Movie: Limitless
April 2011

Director: Neil Burger

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Nero, Abbie Cornish

Plot: Eddie Mora (Cooper) is a struggling, down on his luck, writer failing to keep his life with girlfriend Lindy (Cornish) together but failing. After beign dumped by Lindy Eddie gains access to a new developmental drug that increases his brain functions allowing him to see the world in a new way making him a success in all his endevours. His newfound talent in financial dealings brings him into contact with wealthy buisnessman Carl Von Loon (De Nero) who increases the pressure on Eddie to do well and increasing Eddie's reliance on his drugs to suceed.

With a russian mafia thug and rival business man threatening his supply of drugs Eddie has a lot to overcome in order to keep his life in the order he has created for it because a lack of the drug can have dire cosequences for Eddie.

My thoughts going into the movie: I had little notion of what this film was about, knowing only that it had a drug that increased a persons brain capacity from the 10% and that if a person didnt take it they would die. Not my usual cup of tea but it had Bradley Cooper in it so that was me sold.


Review: Overrall I thought this was a good film, the idea behind how the drug works was a good concept and the acting was great. The look of the film was good as well but I was distracted by a lot by the production value as when Cooper's character enters his enhanced mode he sees the porblem in front of him and it looks disconnected to the film like a bad teenagers attempt at photoshop.

It was good that he had a happy ending in a time when Hollywood seemed to want a sad ending.

Score: B

Worth the DVD?: Yes, I would reccomend that if you see this movie under offer then it is worth it at full price give it a miss as it will fall under some sort of deal movis like this usually do.