A Cautionary Tale For Drug Addiction

Rating: 9/10 (30 September 2014)

Bradley Cooper,Abbie Cornish and Robert DeNiro star in this American thriller entitled,Limitless. The film is about an aspiring author in Eddie Morra,who is suffering from writer's block.Leslie Dixon wrote the screenplay and Neil Burger directed it.
Eddie Morra is consistently experiencing a writer's block which does not help him get a break as an aspiring author.But it became helpful when the estranged brother of his ex-wife,Melissa introduced him to a drug called NZT which enabled him to tap into his fullest potential.This motivated him to go into Wall Street and succeeds in the process as he turned a small amount of money into millions.This catches the attention of Carl Van Loon,who asked his help to broker the largest merger in corporate history.Unfortunately,the brutal side effects of the drug takes place and there is the dilemma that there are people after his stash of NZT.With his dwindling supply of the drug,he tries to escape from his enemies who are hunting him down.
While the premise could be interesting before watching it,the film actually is full of implausibilities and impossibilities.Added to that,it was also uneven and one may even accuse the plot of being convoluted.But in spite of it,it was definitely entertaining as well as appealing.Credit Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro for a fantastic performance.Added to that,it has a lot of great special effects that lovers of CGI movies will surely enjoy.As far as the theme of the movie is concerned,it also serves as a great cautionary tale for drug addiction and how not to overuse drugs especially those that claim to help self-enhancement of certain abilities which the movie did probably just right in its attempt to be original in terms of story and screenplay.