CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Floated2 As a thriller Limitless works on both ends. The film offers an interesting concept and message and as the film goes, we see the development and balance as the film progresses. Starts with a relatively slow start then once the film settles in becomes an interesting watch. The film was relatively a decent hit, making $161 million on a $27 million budget, but wonders as to why a sequel never occurred (instead they made a brief tv series years later)Overall the plot clips along with camera tricks that mirror Eddie's increasingly confused state. Bradley Cooper's knack for slipping from cocksure to self-assured is a delight to watch. His performance, the kinetic energy of the direction by Neil Burger, and a looming sense of dread over the physical and mental toll taken by operating at such a high pitch of efficiency buoy the proceedings along. The plot, it's clever, making a fine distinction between being smart and being savvy, and then hinging the outcome on it without giving too much away in the process.

oragex A 7/10 just because the idea behind the scenario is great but someone wrecked the scenario in the process.TONS of spoilers, be aware.The film starts rather acceptable with a 'plausible' plot in the beginning, and for the first 1/3 it's quite well put together. But then it starts incorporating elements - such as the Russian guys, or the erratic love story in distress, or even worst, the illogical death of the modeling girl. The illogical evens just keep going with Eddie not being investigated for the death of Vernon when he was just in the room with the dead body. He makes $12k in a week which logarithmically speaking would have brought him close to $100k in a month and beyond millions in a year so no need to get in trouble with shady people for a 'loan'. More, as mentioned by other reviews, the Russian mafia guy doesn't get his money back, even when Eddie just made 2 million in ten days or so.Then, the more the movie approaches the end, the more they want us to believe many/most/all successful people must also be on this pill. This trashes the movie even more because the movie stands up and it's credible on the initial basis that Eddie was among very few people who had access to the pill. Like we need to trust the story, or if actually many people were on the pill, how comes Eddie was so quickly successful and that was a surprise for everybody? Finally, the way he puts Van Loon at his place is pathetic after during the whole story Van Loon was about the most powerful and fierce businessmen in the room. And then, just to put the cherry on the sundae, we learn that he can actually even see the future.The story plot could have been just as simple as Eddie making a pile of cash out of stock market, then he would have went back to his ex and blind her with all the dough and stuff, go out with her at a nice restaurant and end of the story, everybody's happy - including myself. But no, some bulb head had to mess with the script and make the film look just like a Picasso painting.

Marcus V. B. Siqueira The movie is great and the actors play really well. I like Bradley Cooper and his acting was pretty nice. Jumping deep in the review of some points. These kind of drug in the movie, doesn't really exists as far as I know, but there is a medicine called Ritalin, that increases the focus, but this stuff is only for people who have problem of focus, so a doctor would give you a prescription. One interesting point about the drug thing, is that, you can't just turn your back in the drug. You can't just stop and that is it. I myself take a medicine, witch all of you should know, medicines are drugs too, so in my case, I take a specific prescription for years that I cant just stop, or else I will have side effects. Drugs, all of them, medicine or not, have side effects even if you can't really notice. There is no magic pill that would grant you a very good effect and take nothing of you. What I expected more at the ending of the movie was that this fact could really be there, and Morra himself, addicted, would meet a dead end. It worked really well when shown the side effects, the problems, the other who perished by the use of the drug, but somehow Morra ended up well. Well, at least for the movie ending, but if you think ahead, maybe in 2 years, when he is out of stock, he would just suffer and probably fall. As an illegal substance, even if he could maintain a secret lab for the pills, he would soon or later get discovered. Well, I still think the message was clear. There is no magic thing that could make you god without not taking anything from you.

GM What if you take a pill that allows you to use 100% of your brain? Of course, you could become an excellent writer and why not make some money with the stock market. Old dreams of the average American man ... This movie makes for one hour and some minutes spectators dream to change their lives just eating a pill. And this is the marketing idea behind the movie: a pleasant escape from reality, mixed with a soft thriller. It's a pity that it ends there ... Scientifically speaking is not the percentage of your brain that you use that makes you smarter but is more a matter of the number of interconnections. The same I think is for the movies: is not only the original idea that makes them smart but also the number of interconnections with the reality and the truth.