The notion of a pill that enhances your mind so that you have access to all of your brain rather than the mere 20% that we normally use is the basis of Limitless, how this pill affects the life of Eddie (Bradley Cooper) is the rest of the story. I associate Cooper with unnecessary action/comedy films and I had already categorized this film as one of them, but it is much better than that and much more of a mystery thriller. It is well thought out and considered with stylish techniques used to reflect the effect of the drug. Cooper is believable as a lazy writer who has let himself go at the beginning of the film and I was drawn into the story straight away.
There are some genuinely tense moments in Limitless and one particularly surprising and shocking moment involving blood. Bradley Cooper does a great job of playing Eddie with and without the drug, Robert De Niro is convincing as a powerful financial businessman who Eddie ends up working for and Abbie Cornish is the voice of reason as Eddie’s on/off girlfriend. The murder subplot is not dealt with in a very believable fashion and seems to be explained away in a split second and some of the violent action scenes take it a little too far, he may be super intelligent now but does that make him invincible? However even with its flaws, and there are a few, Limitless is enjoyable and the ending is suitably ambiguous. It is entertaining right to the end but there should be a limit to how many close ups of Bradley Cooper’s blue eyes are included in a film.
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