I'd think I was on drugs too if I were facing off with Jake La Motta.
Between its generic title (I prefer The Dark Fields, from the Alan Glynn novel it's based on), a less-than-engaging lead in Bradley Cooper and De Niro’s typical tough guy routine, I expected LIMITLESS to be God-awful. Yet I left the theater moderately entertained and even fascinated by the premise. The film is buoyed by a brash style and moments of levity, and Eddie Morra is a believable superhero for our modern miracle drug age.
The scraggly, unshaven Eddie we first meet suffers from depression and low self-esteem, a writer unable to write. (Been there, done that. But Cooper as a writer? And how did Morra get a book contract?) Then he runs into his douche-y ex-brother-in-law Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), a former drug dealer now thriving as a consultant for a pharmaceutical company. Vernon peddles a translucent pill called NZT that he claims will allow Eddie to use his brain’s full potential, but falsely assures him it’s FDA approved. Morra swallows it and ta-da! He’s Uber Eddie.
…And his lightning quick mind enables him to finally write that novel — in four days. He remembers everything he’s ever seen or heard and soon speaks Italian and Japanese fluently. He makes a bundle on the stock market. He’s a hit at parties, beds beautiful ladies and wins his girlfriend back. (Abbie Cornish is the smart, sophisticated Lindy — how did he score her before?) He even morphs into an expert fighter based on Bruce Lee films from his childhood, one of many fun glimpses of things from his past now yielding fruit.
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