Limitless

This was a fun watch. I was having an awful day and was looking for something to cheer me up. This absolutely hits the mark every time time I watch it. That's right, I've watched it several times and maybe you'll do the same. It's limitless Fun, Cheers !!!

loved it. $4.95 is a good price.

I won't give away the plot but it's all about a slacker who gets on a super smart pill. It's has lots of twists and turns. it's fascinating, and it's constantly satisfying as a film. Script, direction are all fantastic. A must see if you like smart movies.

not the worlds best film, but everyone delivers a strong performance and I do love a unique story.

See the movie first before reading this. 'Limitless' is one of those movies that you can show to anyone and know they will be hooked from beginning to end. This movie has all the fun stuff in it, suspense, action, romance told at a brisk pace, but also lots of life and business lessons; Our hero Eddie gets access to 100% of his brain by using a smart pill called NTZ. He tells us via narration,"Everything I'd ever read, seen and heard was now organized and available." After hooking up with higher caliber friends (his useless relationships are "better forgotten and put away in mothballs," he says) and going to Puerto Valletta, Eddie says,"Mere lounging wasn't enough. Suddenly I knew what I needed to do. But it would take money to get there."In the beginning of the film, when Eddie is standing on the ledge of the building ready to jump, he talks about "Wanting to make an impact on the world, instead of the pavement." When explaining his book in the bar, Eddie mentions a 'utopian society.' So we can guess that his final goal might be helping the world. When Eddie is accused of having 'delusions of grandeur' he retorts with, "I have an actual recipe for grandeur." Ah, a plan. Definite plans get definite results. Indefinite plans do not get 'indefinite results', they get NO results. Eddie says, "I was clear. I knew what I needed to do, and how to do it."Eddie says, "There are moments in your life when you cross a bridge and know that your old life is over." And while a high level of success is necessary to express our true selves, Eddie cautions us with, "We are all wired to over reach. Look at history, all the countries that ruled the world. No one stopped and said, 'We've got France, Poland, a big Swiss bank account. Let's not invade Russia in the winter. Let's go home, pop a beer and live on the interest.'" Yes, better not fulfill the Peter Principle and rise to our level of our incompetence.DeNiro makes a good point about earning your power by experience. He tells Eddie: "Your super intellect is a gift from God, but you didn't earn it because you're careless with your power, flashing it around like a trust fund child. You never had to earn it year by year. You don't know how to assess your competition because you never had to compete."Finally, Eddie's success in now internalized and natural. When he speaks to a waiter in Chinese, his girlfriend looks at him in awe. Eddie turns to her, sees her expression and says, "What?"Leaving the theater after seeing 'Limitless' I heard some guy say, "I wish I had the pill." But all that Eddie does in this movie can be accomplished without the pill. See for yourself.

This is an well-written, well-acted, cleverly directed character drama with aspects of a techno-thriller. The premise is that the protagonist, played by Bradley Cooper, gets access to a new "smart drug" of unknown provenance. Cooper convincingly switches back and forth between two different versions of Eddie Morra, interpreting the same character at two very different levels of functionality based on whether he is on or off the drug.The hypothetical drug, "NZT-48", is also handled well, at least in the sense that the question of what exactly it does and how it works doesn't dominate the story. While the movie has the form of a speculative techno-thriller built around the idea of a cognition-enhancing drug, it gives only a passing glance at the nature of cognition. "Intelligence" and "genius" are implicitly equated with improvements in attentiveness and recall, but the story never actually commits to this definition or any other. The details are left to the judgment of the audience, and this is probably the best choice they could have made, though it shifts the focus of the film toward a character study.The story's mix of danger and opportunity maintains a mostly upbeat tone around tense thriller plot points, but overall it's a bit darker than the TV series it spawned. The "unrated extended cut" adds some scenes that would obviously shift the movie from a PG-13 to an R rating, but they don't tell you anything that isn't clearly implied in the theatrical release.The extras include an alternative ending to the movie which gives the story a different final beat, but doesn't actually contradict the released version. The subsequent TV series is consistent with the movie on the same basis (though perhaps more obviously consistent with the alternative ending), and they complement each other very well.