Limitless (2011)

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   lucydawson

   Enjoyed this film for what it was (lots of plot holes but I didn't mind) although I couldn't stop laughing at the fact that he wasted 8.5 million for a "bomb proof" flat that was supposedly impossible to break into that loads of people really easily broke into in about 5mins! 11 years 7 months ago
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   IreneAdler

   Good movie. I liked the fascination of everything the main character was capable of after taking those pills... who would not like to speak all those languages, remember everything you ever read... amazing :)
   It was equally interesting to watch him get in trouble as well. I found the whole movie very enjoyable, the ending was great, too.
   
   I also loved the actors. Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro were amazing in their roles. Thumbs up! 10 years 7 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Limitless, about a writer (Bradley Cooper) who takes a super smart drug and find himself caught up in a conspiracy thriller, looks like that new Scarlett Johansson movie, Lucy, but it doesn't feature super-powers, just super-smarts. It's a perfectly entertaining sf thriller, though how his life eventually connects to the conspiracy element is somewhat contrived when you think about it. It's reasonably exciting and does interesting things with its premise, but I don't think I like its moral ambivalence. I'll grant it its central question: Would we do it? Would we take a drug like this if we could, and would our achievements be our own? But while the virtue of enhancing the human mind can be debated, the film should at least know (and show) whether the protagonist is in the right or not. Because he's telling the story and he's played by Cooper, we want to think he is, but because we don't know HOW he wants to change the world, and because we don't know just what happened during the blackouts, we can't actually be sure of that. Result: The movie may ask its question, but its own answer is glib and sweeps consequences under the rug. Not much help from the director's commentary which is rather ordinary, nor the very brief making of. 8 years 10 months ago

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