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Limitless (2011)

Based on the novel “The Dark Fields” this film is directed by Neil Burger and stars Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro. A writer down on his luck finds a drug that drastically improves your intelligence and sets out to improve his situation.

There is some really interesting direction in this film with the drug sequences being especially well shot but this is sadly the highlight of the film. When it comes to the plot the set up certainly has some potential to it but it seems that the film is more interested in being a simple wish fulfilment rather than delving properly into the world of an intelligence improving drug. It would have been nice to see more of who was controlling the drug, why they made it and what their plans were.

4/5