THE PLOT
Eddie Morra’s girlfriend has left him because his life, along with his writing, is in a slowly spiralling decline. Following the break-up, Eddie (Bradley Cooper) bumps into Vernon, his ex-wife’s brother, who gives him a pill that is supposed to increase the brains activity from 10% to 100%! Taking this designer drug reveals the claim is justified and overnight turns the struggling writer into a powerhouse. However, the effects are fleeting and Eddie needs another hit.
Tracking down Vernon (CSI: Miami’s Det. Jake Berkeley) Eddie discovers Vernon dead and his apartment ransacked but manages to uncover the pill’s hiding place. So begins an addiction that brings Eddie fame, money, enemies and potentially agonising death.
Within what seems about a week Eddie finishes his novel and has become a major trader on the stock market, attracting the attention of some big fish. Enter Carl van Loon (Robert De Niro), a business mogul who challenges Morra to advise him on a merger that could make billions. For this, Morra must be at the top of his game, but his stash is running low and the side effects are becoming more severe.
THE REVIEW
I’ll set this out from the start… I wanted to see a film and this looked like the best of what was on general release that I hadn’t yet seen. From this you can see that neither my expectation nor my demands were particularly high. This proved relatively beneficial.
Cooper was entertaining enough but nothing special, except maybe for the ladies, and even then I’m guessing only after he stopped dressing like a street urchin. De Niro’s role could have been played by almost any sixty-something Hollywood actor, as his talents seemed wasted on this script. In fact, with the exception of Cooper’s Morra, most characters seemed underdeveloped, two-dimensional and frequently stereotyped. This is a pity, as the idea behind the film seems like it could have had potential as a dark and gritty alternative reality, rather than the colour-by-numbers stuff served up here.
I didn’t hate this film, however, even if it was 15 minutes longer than it needed to be; a remarkable thing in itself, considering the film’s tendency to take considerable jumps forward in time. You’d think they just skip the boring shit and get on with it! Limitless is entertaining in the main, but plays it close to the bone, delivering a relatively flat experience.
THE VERDICT
Halfway through you realize Limitless has some considerable boundaries that turn a film with some potential into a forgettable way to kill 100 minutes
TC
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel)
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel
Running Time: 105 Mins
NOW SEE THE TRAILER...
UK Release Date: 23rd February 2011
Eddie Morra’s girlfriend has left him because his life, along with his writing, is in a slowly spiralling decline. Following the break-up, Eddie (Bradley Cooper) bumps into Vernon, his ex-wife’s brother, who gives him a pill that is supposed to increase the brains activity from 10% to 100%! Taking this designer drug reveals the claim is justified and overnight turns the struggling writer into a powerhouse. However, the effects are fleeting and Eddie needs another hit.
Tracking down Vernon (CSI: Miami’s Det. Jake Berkeley) Eddie discovers Vernon dead and his apartment ransacked but manages to uncover the pill’s hiding place. So begins an addiction that brings Eddie fame, money, enemies and potentially agonising death.
Within what seems about a week Eddie finishes his novel and has become a major trader on the stock market, attracting the attention of some big fish. Enter Carl van Loon (Robert De Niro), a business mogul who challenges Morra to advise him on a merger that could make billions. For this, Morra must be at the top of his game, but his stash is running low and the side effects are becoming more severe.
THE REVIEW
I’ll set this out from the start… I wanted to see a film and this looked like the best of what was on general release that I hadn’t yet seen. From this you can see that neither my expectation nor my demands were particularly high. This proved relatively beneficial.
Cooper was entertaining enough but nothing special, except maybe for the ladies, and even then I’m guessing only after he stopped dressing like a street urchin. De Niro’s role could have been played by almost any sixty-something Hollywood actor, as his talents seemed wasted on this script. In fact, with the exception of Cooper’s Morra, most characters seemed underdeveloped, two-dimensional and frequently stereotyped. This is a pity, as the idea behind the film seems like it could have had potential as a dark and gritty alternative reality, rather than the colour-by-numbers stuff served up here.
I didn’t hate this film, however, even if it was 15 minutes longer than it needed to be; a remarkable thing in itself, considering the film’s tendency to take considerable jumps forward in time. You’d think they just skip the boring shit and get on with it! Limitless is entertaining in the main, but plays it close to the bone, delivering a relatively flat experience.
THE VERDICT
Halfway through you realize Limitless has some considerable boundaries that turn a film with some potential into a forgettable way to kill 100 minutes
TC
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel)
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel
Running Time: 105 Mins
NOW SEE THE TRAILER...
UK Release Date: 23rd February 2011
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