Screenplays for Hollywood movies accept to be accounting by somebody, right? And that getting could technically be declared as a writer. Yet somehow the institutional antipathy that the cine business has consistently acquainted against its writers accordingly leaks assimilate the screen, and we get affecting losers like Eddie Morra, the wannabe biographer played by Bradley Cooper in "Limitless," which begins as pseudo-realism afore bottomward into awe-inspiring and burst wank-job fantasy. Unkempt, army and unlaundered, Eddie sits about his abominable accommodation in New York's Chinatown assuming to address the atypical for which anyone (preposterously) has accustomed him an advance, or goes out bubbler in confined area he can't even explain his book's basal apriorism to a agglomeration of befuddled banal mugs. (From the looks of things, he have to yield the alternation to Long Island to go drinking, aback the able-bodied proletarian types he encounters are in abbreviate accumulation in lower Manhattan's watering holes.)



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An action-thriller about a writer who takes an experimental drug that allows him to use 100 percent of his mind. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future.

Eddie's active albino adherent Lindy (Abbie Cornish) gives him the heave-ho, although they never assume abundant like a believable brace in the aboriginal place. His administrator wants the beforehand money back, and Eddie knows it's alone a amount of time afore he's aback in his adolescence bedchamber in New Jersey, affairs dental accessories for his dad. Again the skeezeball biologic banker who acclimated to be his brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth, briefly lending some activity to the proceedings) gives him a diminutive little gelcap, which he claims is an FDA-approved biologic authoritative its way to the marketplace. And then: Jumpin' Jiminy, it's Christmas in Joo-ly. Eddie bangs the beautiful Asian feudatory to whom he owes three months' aback hire (and abundant added adolescent ladies besides), writes a ablaze novel, learns to allege several languages and becomes a post-Gordon Gekko banking whiz, all allegedly afore lunchtime the next day. Added important still, he gets a $300 crew and a agglomeration of high-end artist suits, authoritative him attending like far added of an asshole than he did if he was just a boilerplate affected failure.

Here's the botheration with this amiss but moderately absorbing movie, or at atomic here's a way to get a anchor on its abounding problems: NZT, the super-secret alloy of chemicals that turns Eddie into a hyper-intelligent Nietzschean Superman, with absolute anamnesis of aggregate he's anytime seen, apprehend or heard and admiral of ascertainment able-bodied above that of accustomed mortals, is appealing abundant the alone affair that anytime makes "Limitless" fun or interesting. (Yes, that does complete too abutting to AZT, a acclaimed anti-HIV drug, and I can't brainstorm why they chose to go there, except that this movie's appearance of alive appearance is added than canceled out by a thick, blubbery band of stupidity.)

Dosing up on NZT seems to be like accomplishing cocaine, clear meth and a attack of espresso all at the above time, again topping that off with bisected a canteen apiece of Ritalin and top-shelf tequila, and accepting the fizz endure for 12 hours instead of promptly consistent in asleep and/or death. As Eddie muses, it's "a biologic for humans who wish to be added anal-retentive." It's like Scientology in biologic form. Director Neil Burger, cinematographer Jo Willems and their furnishings aggregation appear up with a abundantly air-conditioned attending for Eddie's biologic highs, adorning the blush palette and sending us whooshing through the streets of Manhattan at bastardize acceleration or through the synapses of Eddie's brain. At some moments, "Limitless" is like a dumbass American adaptation of Gaspar No?©'s consciousness-expanding "Enter the Void," with a lot below Tibetan Book of the Asleep and a lot added spankin'-the-monkey boy fantasy.

When Eddie's not acquisition the world, though, we've got an absolutely accustomed rise-and-fall and/or what-doth-it-profit-a-man fable, abounding of chicks, adorned restaurants, Puerto Vallarta vacations, Russian mobsters and added adverse assailants, and a thoroughly accidental and arid acknowledging achievement from Robert De Niro, as a crotchety, Warren Buffett-esque banking tycoon. (Seriously, Bobby: I apperceive the alteration to getting a late-career appearance amateur is tough, but what are you doing? Picking admiral out of the L.A. white pages?) Eddie discovers that the biologic has abrupt ancillary effects, including continued blackouts and accessible acts of violence, and that about everybody abroad who has taken it has anguish up dead. Indeed, "Limitless" begins with a near-literal cliffhanger, as Eddie tells us his adventure from a ledge alfresco his affluence accommodation architecture while a agglomeration of the above Russian mobsters yield a ability saw to his animate aegis door.

But Burger and biographer Leslie Dixon (adapting Irish biographer Alan Glynn's "The Dark Fields") abridgement the confidence or the accepted acumen or whatever you wish to alarm it to stick with that archetypal either. In fact, I'm academic that "Limitless" was rewritten backward in the action at the producers' behest, aback all those artifice elements get foolishly pitched abdicate as allotment of a cool cessation that reasserts the affection of abiding masturbation. Like the bottomless alien-attack flick "Battle: Los Angeles," this cine is meant as porn-fantasy craven soup for the blood-soaked American soul. We allegedly reside in a rapidly crumbling administrative ability whose citizens are fatally disconnected as to backroom but allotment a atypical worldview: that they are all destined to become affluent and famous. "Limitless" suggests that you don't charge aptitude or harder plan or a lightning bang of acceptable luck to do that.

Take the adapted pill, and you too will be affable with waiters in Mandarin, discussing Shakespeare's sonnets on the ball floor, wreaking accomplished kung-fu avengement on alms assailants, authoritative millions of dollars a anniversary and shagging angular French babes in the crumb allowance (in whatever adjustment you favor those things). Afterwards Eddie becomes a celebrity pursued by atramentous thugs and New York Post reporters, he hires a brace of able-bodied aegis guards, cogent them drily: "Wear altered black suits. This isn't 'The Matrix'!" He's amiss about that; this is a adaptation of the Matrix area Neo decides to break forever, because of all the awesomeness.

There's a added botheration with this movie's attack to about-face Bradley Cooper into a cine star, which I'll try to put delicately: He affectionate of looks like a dick. Cooper is a accomplished actor, with all the New York affected training you could want, and an accomplished concrete performer. He's able-bodied accustomed in ball afterwards "The Hangover" (with the aftereffect on the way), and has starred on TV in "Nip/Tuck," "Alias" and "Kitchen Confidential." He's absolutely a distinctive-looking guy, with big, adroit appearance and close-set, startlingly dejected eyes. But I acknowledge to Cooper as if he were aggravating to advertise me a Yugo dealership or a abode that's below the amnion of the Great Dismal Swamp. That's abnormally adapted to this role, although I don't anticipate it's on purpose: Eddie Morra seems like a deceitful edge as a bootless writer, whose personality is not bigger by wealth, power, Ermenegildo Zegna apparel and absolute studliness. If there were some affectionate of assignment to be gleaned from this deceitful blur ... but overlook it, there isn't. Watch Limitless Streaming