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Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2011)

Hadn't watched other movies starring Bradley Cooper - aside from the last version of A Team - so the lead actor's quite a a new face to me but I reckon he never looked out of place; his acting's not phenomenal but in this instance he has appeared to convey the exhilaration of these special new powers. Coneversely the good looking Abbie Cornish, playing his girlfriend, doesn't get to to put across visible emotions as his fiancé does. Robert De Niro is cast as the great old Wall Street moguls, different form the criminal type he played other times but he certainly gets to prove believable. On the whole LIMITLESS, which never sermonizes on drugs and the morality of drug created intelligence, is a fresh and well-written thriller. It might not pass a logic test but logic sometimes lacks in good movies as well. It's part fantasy and part thriller but conceived in an ingenious way.