Insanely stupid

Rating: 3/10 (4 December 2011)

Truly putrid thriller starring the "sexiest man alive" Bradley Cooper. The dude can't act worth a crap, but even if he could, he couldn't save the film from such an enormously stupid screenplay. It's about a dunderhead (Cooper) who is given a magic clear pill by his ex-brother-in-law that allows him to use his full brain capacity. The pill makes him so smart that he's able to play the stock market and get rich quick - of course, he's so smart that the way he gets funding to play the stock market is by borrowing from the Russian mafia. Because that's what smart people would do. Later in the film, Cooper's girlfriend (Abbie Cornish, whose career should be going much better than it is - she stars in two of the worst films of the year, this and Sucker Punch) takes the pill and decides to use an eight year old girl with ice skates as a weapon. The thing is, the writers of this film (and the original novel; this was based on a friggin' novel!) are so dumb they don't have any clue how a smart person would think, so they just come up with whatever is in their dumbass heads and put it in the movie. Co-starring Rober De Niro.