Bradley Cooper lives up to his Limitless potential as its star

Rating: 8/10 (3 April 2011)

Since it's been a couple of weeks that I watched this movie, here are my thoughts: Bradley Cooper has now come into his own among compelling movie stars with this, his first film in which he's the whole show. He plays an aspiring novelist who has writer's block. That is, until his former brother-in-law provides him with a drug that helps him functions all parts of his brain. So Cooper does lots of things to the point of him skipping through time and being way over his head when some troubling revelations of his doings come up...Though quite entertaining, some of the logic lapses near the end. Still, with such fine supporting turns from, among others, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, and the one and only Robert De Niro, not to mention some trippy camera shots, Limitless is a quite entertaining for the 90 or so minutes that pass.