"Limitless" Review

Bradley Cooper is back and this time there's nothing he can't figure out.  Cooper plays an author named Eddie Morra who just received a contract for a book and gets writer's block.  He's walking down the street and happens to run into his ex-wife's brother Vernon Gant played by Johnny Whitworth.  Whitworth claims to be working for a pharmaceutical company and gives Morra a clear/see-through pill which apparently enhancing certain enzymes in the brain.  Morra gets home and takes it and after a small amount of time suddenly can think of everything, even things he didn't remember seeing from years beforehand came back to him.  Morra, while on this pill, was able to write a huge section of his book.  Morra goes to Gant's apartment, who gave him his business card, for more of the pills.  He goes out to run a few errands for Gant, who was banged up from someone or something, and when he returned, he found Gant dead on his couch.  Morra finds Gant's stash of pills before the police arrive.

This pill is called NZT-48 and Morra uses it to manipulate things like the stock market and gains a lot of money in record speeds.  This lands him a huge job with Carl Van Loon, a powerful businessman played by Robert De Niro.  However to get to this point he had to borrow money from a thug named Gennady played by Andrew Howard.  This gets him into some trouble for he forgets to pay Gennady back his $100,000.  Instead of paying Genaddy his money back, he starts supplying Gennady with NZT.  Morra stops taking NZT after he goes through a day where he starts appearing at certain places to which he does not remember how he arrived at.  He then learns from his ex-wife that if you stop taking NZT after a certain amount has been consumed, you die.  It is for this reason that he regulates his dosage and finds out a way to produce more and runs for Senate.

Cooper continues to be one of the top grossing actors in Hollywood for this movie after three weeks since its release has gathered up 69.8 million dollars in revenue for the box-office.  Robert De Niro delivers a solid performance as he always tends to do.  Although this movie was obviously not the best movie I've ever seen, it was still entertaining and kept my attention all throughout.  I'd give this movie a three out of five stars.