A poor overrated movie

Rating: 3/10 (4 March 2016)

Allot of people have recommended this film to me and I must say I am very disappointed. The premise sees a writer at his lowest take a drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain. Bradley cooper is a great actor and he is pretty good in this film, he brings humanity to his character in certain situations. But his character is written to be so unlikable that you really don't want to root for him. Everybody does a decent job in this film whether it is abbie cornish as coopers girlfriend or robert de niro who does a decent job. The villain was also okay but the only problem is none of these characters have any development and you will not care about anybody by the end of this film. The story has some interesting elements involving coopers evolution with the drug but there is also allot of side stories just forgotten about. The ending also leaves allot to be desired . The script isn't that bad it just leaves allot to be desired as well because there is nothing special about it that makes it stand out. The style of this film is a bit weird with bizarre out of place hallucinations and the pacing is incredibly slow for the film. Overall this is a poor film that I don't think is worth a watch.