Limitless

Movie: Limitless

Genre: thriller/drama

Synopsis: Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a bit of loser.  He has been working on writing a book for six months and has yet to write a single word.  Then his ex-brother-in-law gives him a pill.  This pill enables a person to go from using only 20% of his brain to using 100%.  It is as if he were blind before and now can see.  And he sees – and understands – everything.  After securing a supply of these pills, Eddie starts moving up in the world.  He ends up working for an industrialist played by Robert DeNiro.  Things start going south for Eddie when a Russian mobster comes after him.  There is also someone trying to kill Eddi and his girlfriend – but he does not know why.

My two cents: This was a great movie.  The scenes where the pill takes effect were really well done and did the job of conveying a sense of what it would seem like to have your IQ suddenly jump five-fold or more.  There are some great scenes between Robert DeNiro’s character and Eddie.  I was afraid that I was going to not like the ending, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had a great ending.

Bottom line: See this movie.

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