Limitless thrill! Limitless fun!

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2014)

Based on the novel "The Dark Fields" by Alan Glynn, Limitless is an American thriller film about an aspiring author Eddie Morra(Bradley Cooper) whose life changes in a couple of minutes when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a new pharmaceutical drug which allows him to access full potential of his brain. Everything Eddie has heard, read or seen suddenly becomes available and organized to him, making him the smartest and most active person in the world. Soon, he rises to the top of the financial world and draws the attention of the business tycoon Carl Van loon, who sees him as a tool to make billions, and invites him to help broker the biggest merger in the corporate history. After consuming NZT for some time, he begins to realize the hazards and what it has done to other consumers. Addicted to NZT, he finds himself trapped among mysterious strangers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation.The story revolves around how he fights them to keep his dwindling stash of NZT whose intake has now become necessary for his survival.
The ending of the movie was very smooth leaving no open threads. Neil Burger(Director) has used various visual effects and camera angles to illustrate the effects of this powerful drug, the most interesting of which was fractal zoom used multiple times in the movie. Cooper very gracefully played the roles of both the super-active and the lazy, thus adding life to the character of Eddie. The plot of the movie unfolded respecting the temporal sequence of events. The movie is shot in a modern set-up. The composition was very good.