Imagine if every piece of knowledge you had ever gained and every memory you'd ever made could be recalled in an instant and applied to your current situation?
Your intellect would be limitless and your potential would be immeasurable.
Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) had such powers after bumping into his former brother-in-law
and being offered a special pill as a pick-me-up.
A struggling writer, Eddie had been doing it tough, with little motivation to start his novel.
With the pill on board, Eddie had a clarity he'd never known before.
His brain went into overdrive and no mental challenge was too difficult to deal with.
He could work through 100 different options to deal with any problem in front of him.
The world was his oyster.
Eddie's life turned around at an incredible pace.
He applied his brainpower to his novel and then the financial markets and quickly created great power and wealth, attracting the attention of financial power broker Carl van Loon (Robert de Niro).
But his astonishing rise in the financial world attracted much attention and it soon became clear that dangerous people were after his remaining supply of the wonder drug.
He cannot do without the pills but he has to be alive to use them.
Eddie must now engage in a dangerous juggling game - keeping his burgeoning career on track while keeping the assassins at bay.
Limitless offers a real earthy edge to its storytelling.
There's no smooth sanitised approach, the scenes are shot with a realism not typical of Hollywood action films.
There is a real feeling of being along for the ride as Eddie goes on his adventure.
4/5
(M), 120 minutes
