Limitless

½  pipe out of 4 

Robert De Niro has made some pretty great movies during his acting career but as of late he has chosen bad movie after bad movie such as Righteous Kill, Little Fockers and now Limitless. The film also stars Bradley Cooper but I don’t expect much out of him as a lead role because the best movie he has done was about a bachelor party where he gets rooffied and can’t remember anything. Limitless follows the strife of a struggling author Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) who has writers block and his girlfriend just broke-up with him. He runs into a former acquaintance who offers him a miracle drug that lets him access all of his brain. He is immediately hooked and becomes incredibly successful until he runs into huge business owner Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) and he runs out of the drug. Limitless had an incredible similarity to Law Abiding Citizen but instead of rooting for the bad guy you are rooting against the good guy. Bradley Cooper’s character makes himself look like a douche and an idiot but at the end of the movie you’re supposed to like that he outsmarted De Niro. When it comes down to it you want Morra to fail and especially not get back together with his girlfriend after she takes the drug and realizes that it changes the person who takes it. The ending also leaves you with more questions than answers because in an epilog there are 12 months that pass where we don’t know what happens. It really says something when the best part of the movie doesn’t come from the movie itself but from the audience’s reaction to the realization that Morra will drink the blood of another human who has the drug in his blood system in order to get the drug.