fabulous yet flawed

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2011)

Fun movie to watch. Bradley Cooper does an outstanding job. There was plenty of action. I actually found myself wishing this pill really did exist in real life. Watching this film, I felt that the struggles that the lead character faced were well displayed, from his writer's block to his girlfriend to his complete vulnerability as he faces the mysteries of this new-found power that he stumbled across. It was good to see how not everything worked out the way he expected it to. The big Flaw in this movie is this: if he can outsmart every stock market analyst after just a few days of studying, why can't he, himself, study the pill and find a way to reproduce it? Why leave this to the amateurs who are using only 35 percent of their brain ? The same holds true for fending off the bad guys: he should be able to out smart them or at least buy a gun with a silencer. He knows they are after him. Every issue he attacks should have been studied by him as his brain is superior in learning capacity.