Limitless (Neil Burger)

[Dukefrukem]

Who? The guy who did The Illusionist. Oh him.

This looks great.

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[number8]

For a second, I thought Neil Hamburger has made a film and got excited.

Psch.

[MadMan]

It looks okay, I suppose...so probably a rental.

[Acapelli]

For a second, I thought Neil Hamburger has made a film and got excited.

Psch.
same here

[Dukefrukem]

This was the second movie I saw over the weekend and thought it was great. It moves fast. I don’t have much else to say about it other than I thought it flowed well, kept to the point was interesting enough to watch again. Makes you wonder how these pills would affect your life, if it can take a writer from broken to rich in 3 days.

[Morris Schæffer]

This is now also the guy from uncharted. Cooper is supposedly un-cooperian in this. And yes, I just invented that word.

[TGM]

This movie was good, until the end, where they decided to backtrack, pretend the entire second act never happened, and force a happy ending on us that drives home this movie's completely offensive pro-drug message.

It looked like they were heading towards a more appropriate, more natural conclusion, but then in the last 15 minutes or so, they say screw it, the drugs have no negative effects after all, and everybody lives happily ever after. My ass. It was entertaining enough before that bullshit ending, but that ending was enough to ruin the whole thing with its ridiculousness.

[Dukefrukem]

This movie was good, until the end, where they decided to backtrack, pretend the entire second act never happened, and force a happy ending on us that drives home this movie's completely offensive pro-drug message.

It looked like they were heading towards a more appropriate, more natural conclusion, but then in the last 15 minutes or so, they say screw it, the drugs have no negative effects after all, and everybody lives happily ever after. My ass. It was entertaining enough before that bullshit ending, but that ending was enough to ruin the whole thing with its ridiculousness.

Wasn't it explained as:

You can ween yourself off it, on top of not mixing it with alcohol and abusing it like he was doing at the beginning. It also suggested the others were doing that too.

Plus, I thought it was obvious at the very end when he was speaking another language that he was still on it.

[TGM]

Wasn't it explained as:

You can ween yourself off it, on top of not mixing it with alcohol and abusing it like he was doing at the beginning. It also suggested the others were doing that too.

Plus, I thought it was obvious at the very end when he was speaking another language that he was still on it.

Of course he was still on it, they blatantly told us as much. And that's what makes this so wrong, it sends the message that drugs are not only okay, but will actually lead to success in life.

The fact that there was literally no repercussions at all for any of his actions only made things worse. By the end he didn't grow at all or learn a thing. In fact, it's the exact opposite, he's rewarded for his actions. It's literally like the entire second act didn't actually happen, because by the end, everything he learned in that portion was thrown right out the window, and he reverts right back to the same jackass he was in the beginning.

The ending was the equivalent of a shitty DVD exclusive "alternate ending" being used as the real deal. And as a result, it ruins everything that came before it. That said, if there ever is a version with a more appropriate conclusion to this movie, I'd definitely give it another try, because up until the offensive ending, like I said, it actually is pretty good.

[Dukefrukem]

Of course he was still on it, they blatantly told us as much. And that's what makes this so wrong, it sends the message that drugs are not only okay, but will actually lead to success in life.

The fact that there was literally no repercussions at all for any of his actions only made things worse. By the end he didn't grow at all or learn a thing. In fact, it's the exact opposite, he's rewarded for his actions. It's literally like the entire second act didn't actually happen, because by the end, everything he learned in that portion was thrown right out the window, and he reverts right back to the same jackass he was in the beginning.

The ending was the equivalent of a shitty DVD exclusive "alternate ending" being used as the real deal. And as a result, it ruins everything that came before it. That said, if there ever is a version with a more appropriate conclusion to this movie, I'd definitely give it another try, because up until the offensive ending, like I said, it actually is pretty good.


How is it like the entire seecond half didn't happen? He was still on it. All those other people's lives it ruinied had stopped taking it. It didn't ignore anything. The only thing the ending did was offend you about the use of drugs.

[TGM]

How is it like the entire seecond half didn't happen? He was still on it. All those other people's lives it ruinied had stopped taking it. It didn't ignore anything. The only thing the ending did was offend you about the use of drugs.

The whole point of the second act was to show us the inevitable downfall that comes with the use of this drug. This entire aspect is completely ignored in the end, however, and he continues to use the drug in the end with no repercussions to either his health or his success. This completely contradicts what the second act was trying to achieve.

[Irish]

This was fun in a trashy, so-bad-it's-good sort of way. Sort of like Flowers for Algernon meets Wall Street meets Requiem for a Dream. But without any of the craft, skill, or intelligence of those films. Also, for anyone keeping track, this movie represents yet another stop in Robert DeNiro's fascinating tour of career hell.

Relentlessly stupid and fast paced, most of the major events are dismissed in a single line and conveniently forgotten, with characters appearing and disappearing at the whims of the plot. Cooper is watchable in the lead, but he's not given much chance to perform as the bulk of his role originates from an almost ceaseless voice over, dumping huge chunks of exposition onto the audience every ten minutes or so.

For a film that features people with "four digit IQs," it really doesn't want the audience to think much. Apparently taking underground smart drugs turns the entire world into super-saturated technicolor and people into a combination of Sherlock and Neo, able to make quick deductions at a glance and perform elaborate martial arts based on single, childhood viewings of Bruce Lee movies.

An overly elaborate buildup and cheesy ending left me cackling but the heart of this thing, how it confuses knowledge for understanding and facts for intelligence, is depressing and empty.

[Qrazy]

Best (and by best I mean worst) part of this film was when after taking a pill the love interest made a startling revelation. That revelation being that spinning a child's ice skates into a man's face was her optimal method of escape. lolwut.

Anyway, I agree with TGM's position.