Fun Thriller

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2017)

You take a pill, and your mind clears. You can consider dozens of scenarios at once. You have perfect recall. You find yourself able to keep up with, and even surpass the smartest people on the planet.
What do you do? What challenges do you face? At what cost will you gain your wildest dreams?
The movie shows the desperation and need of a drug addict, given the perspective of someone who believes that the drug actually benefits their life. It demonstrates the ambition of someone who honestly believes that they can have it all. And it does it well. As someone who goes to a elite liberal arts school, I have seem people with absolutely freakish levels of intelligence and ambition. And they think and/or behave shockingly similarly to Eddie Morra. So this movie is not really as unrealistic as people might think.
Bradley Cooper really makes this film. This is only a 9 out of 10 because the plot dominates the roles of all the other characters, so we don't really get to see their complexities.