A Fun Flick

Rating: 6/10 (19 August 2019)

The movie "Limitless" came out right when Bradley Cooper ("The Mule") was starting to get big. I remember seeing trailers for this film but not really thinking anything of it, but over the years it's title has floated up whenever people talked about 'Fun' movies. That's what this movie is: it's fun. There are plenty of moments where it almost takes things too far and almost becomes obnoxious (there's nothing worse than a movie that thinks its smarter than it is), but for the most part this film is carried along by some innovative cinematic techniques, a solid performance by Bradley Cooper, and an overall bonkers concept. This film wont be remembered as an uber-classy thriller; if anything it'll be remembered as the pretty decent movie Cooper made before he started to really make some great career choices ("Silver Linings Playbook", "American Sniper", "A Star is Born") and simultaneously it will be remembered as the film Robert De Niro ("Taxi Driver") made after he started to run out of money from all of the great movies he made earlier in his career.