Limitless
What If A Pill Could Make You Rich And Powerful?
What If A Pill Could Make You Rich And Powerful?
So, right now I am on a movie kick that just will not leave me alone. You may have seen that I reviewed Scream 4 last night and I thought that I would continue in that vein with a full review of Bradley Cooper's latest offering in Limitless. Limitless was billed to be a movie that would do well at the Box Office, capitalising on the fame that Cooper has amassed since his breakthrough role in the Hangover.
The premise of this movie, as you may be well aware, is that Eddie Morra (Cooper) is offered a pill that will allow him to enhance his thinking abilities five-fold. Instead of accessing 20% of his brain, like a mere mortal human being, this pill allows him to access all of it. As you probably can tell, this allows Eddie an advantage over everyone else. His work-rate and critical thinking skills vastly improve and he becomes the man that he always wanted to be. Still, I am not going too sugar-coat the pill (badum-tish), so here is my thoughts on the movie.
Note: This review may contain some spoilers!
The first thing that should be said about this movie is that it had huge potential. Both for entertaining audiences with a good concept and premise and for letting people down. Personally, I don't know where I fall with this one. I suspected that by writing out a review, I would be closer to what I really thought but as I sit here and type out this paragraph, I am no further forward in putting it into a category. The problem with this movie is that it gets far too clustered in a small space of time. There is far too much going on and a lot of plot holes that really left me scratching my head. Given that it is not supposed to be your run-of-the-mill cheesy blockbuster, I was expecting a little more in the way of plot. I mean, I haven't seen this concept for a movie done before and I thought they could have did a better job with it.
That being said, I thought that both Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro did a fine job in this flick. In fact, all of the acting seemed to right on point. It was refreshing to see Cooper in a role that didn't centre around his comedic performances. Limitless showed me, at least, that Bradley Cooper is more than just a one-trick pony. His narration of the film and his performance therein, really brought a sense of familiarity to this movie that would have been missed if it were another actor. As for DeNiro, you get what you pay for. The man is a screen legend and really played an awesome part in this movie. I was a little disappointed not to see his darker side in this one but I can live with it given that he wasn't the focal character.
The story itself was drawn out a little for my taste and it brings me to my main gripe for this movie. The ending was actually terrible. I mean, one moment this guys is struggling to write one word on a page for his book and the next he is running for President? Seriously, come on! And I know what you are thinking, Dave he is on the drug, you moron!. Actually, by this point, he is off of the drug and he is still running for President. Not only that but what happened to the sickness that was killing you 5 minutes ago because you were taking the drug? I mean, come on! Some continuity is all I ask for.
Still, this was a decent movie that will do well at the Box Office, whether it deserves it or not.
2.5/5