If you thought it was fun, you're already smart without a pill

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2011)

All right, I have seen The Illusionist (2006) from the same director and I really liked it. Limitless (2011) is definitely likable too but I would not say I really like it. The direction and the camera works were great which went on pretty well with the film, taking the viewers into the buzz by the ongoing zooming technique. It does a good job in getting us into the head of Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper did very well; gradually he is becoming a very promising actor. Robert De Niro, as we all know is always amazing, was good. Johnny Whitworth has the potential of delivering quality acting and should be given bigger roles in the future. All the other actors and actresses were okay, there is always room for improvement. The Cinematography was as good as in The Illusionist (2006). I felt the ending was not good enough. Was it a way of encouraging people to find and go for such a drug or any similar types of drug such as Yabba, which is already in the market. Get hold of it and you will be successful in life with the ability to do whatever you want, really? Considering the incredible capability of our brain, the story is realistic, but what would have made the ending better is that after Bradley Cooper gets another pack of those pills from the old guy's place, he starts being smart again and becomes the senator and so on. Relating to this part, at the ending, it could be shown that he was sitting in his apartment only thinking these incidents to be real as his brain got extremely focused to only what he would think. That would add better sense to it taking side effects into consideration. Tripping to the story line again, the murder of the woman at the hotel could have created suspense with confusions and could have contributed more and I wondered why there was not any investigation done? The tension in the scenes such as when Bradley Cooper after having the first pill goes to Johnny Whitworth's apartment and finds him dead and near the end when he sucks the flowing intoxicated blood and just lies there with a syringe inside his mouth to plunge into the eye of the one-eyed bodyguard, were done very professionally. Overall, I would say Neil Burger did a good job in entertaining us to which from my perspective was 7 out of 10.