Limitless is a well crafted
scientific crime thriller with a super velocity execution. Starting from the
opening titles it will grab you in to a world where natural minds status of
sanity continuously collides with a supernatural mind state which is dangerously
close to insanity.
Eddie Morra is a broken down
writer with empty bank account and a regrettable past. While he is trying to
get back in track with a book deal he recently got, he struggles to come up
with new ideas until he coincidently meet his ex-brother-in-law Vernon. After taking
a pill given by Vernon, Eddie’s life starts to change in lightning speed. The
drugs accelerates Eddie’s brain power and improves everything he puts his mind
in to. He becomes a super human but not in physical power but in thinking
power. After completing a half of his new book over night Eddie goes back to
Vernon asking for another does. After finding Vernon’s dead body in his
apartment Eddie realize that he has become a part of a deadly game and this
drug is his only savior. Armed with a full doze of drugs Eddie steps out to
conquer the corporate world. With many enemies trying to grab a piece of his
secret Eddie jumps up the ladder and enter new heights while playing the cat
and mouse game of his life.
The script of Limitless is filled
with near impossible scenarios, starting from the miraculous brain performance
enhancing drug. BUT the mere executions of this plot is simply worth seeing. Embedded
with unique computer graphics and cinematography the movie will squeeze in to
the viewers mind and drags him along the joy ride just as Eddie experience it. In
one scene where Eddie goes on a total 18 hour blackout and suddenly comes back
to reality, it feels as if it actually happened to you. That I call is gorgeous
movie making.
Limitless is one of the most
entertaining science fictions I have seeing in recent times. And it moves so
fast if you stop to think you lose the game big time!
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel)
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel and Abbie
Cornish
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