Careful what you wish for, Limitless is a mind bender

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2011)

Wild. This is a trip worth taking in more ways than one. The usually handsome Bradley Cooper plays would be novelist and extreme under achiever Eddie. Sporting a bad haircut, he's obnoxious and one of the biggest losers seen on the big screen for very a long time. After being dumped by his girlfriend in public, he stumbles into his lowest point of living. However, through various circumstances he is offered a new mystery drug, largely untested it is a pill to heighten brain activity and body senses. What follows is a turnaround in Eddie's life, an ability to recall every bit of information he's been exposed to his entire life. The drug is no simple steroid and there's a catch, a big one. He must continue to take the pills or his body will deteriorate as quick as it was pumped up. Bradley Cooper is so good he's almost nauseating, switching from no hoper to know it all with perennial ease. Legendary Robert DeNiro is a major player in the film creating surprises, the less said about him the better. Plot holes throughout I overlooked as Limitless took effect. Must See.