Limitless - 2011 ****

First of all, I think the beginning shot that takes us on a mind-tripping journey at 100 mph through the streets of America really should be giving this film 5 stars on it's own. It's amazing. I couldn't quite understand believe what I was seeing.

Okay, so the premise for this film is that Bradley Cooper is a bit of a bum. A failed, uninspired writer who lives off his girlfriend until she can't take anymore and leaves him. He's already been married once but that barely lasted any time at all, and by the looks of things not being able to write means its impossible for him to cut or wash his hair. He looks a bit like a tramp. One day he bumps into his ex-wife's brother who suggests that to motivate him he can give him a special pill. Usually we only use 20% of our brain he says, and with this new pill you can access all of it. 100%. Intrigued he takes the pill when he gets home and is soon the intellectual equal or Einstein and Hawking put together. He knows everything, and anything he doesn't he can learn in barely no time at all. He is the life and soul of parties, meetings, events and everyone seems to want a piece of him. He even lands up being offered a fantastic job at a stock firm where his amazing talent for maths has him predicting how stocks will rise and fall before anyone else. Soon he needs more and more of these tablets, but like with any sort of drug, once you become addicted to them, getting off them is practically impossible. I thought this was a really well done movie, well put together, well executed and very well acted. However I would've liked a better ending, but the package overall was worth the watch.