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LIMITLESS (PG-13) Ebert: Users: You: Rate This Movie Right Now movie reviews Reviews Great Movies Answer Man People Commentary Festivals Oscars Glossary One-Minute Reviews Letters Roger Ebert's Journal Scanners Store News Sports Business Entertainment Classifieds Columnists search LIMITLESS (PG-13) Ebert: Users: You: Rate this movie right now GO Search powered Share This WCIU by YAHOO! Facebook Page register You are not logged in. Log in » Subscribe to weekly newsletter » Replay Video times & tickets in theaters Fandango Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper. Search movie Win Win showtimes and buy more current releases » tickets. Limitless one-minute movie reviews BY ROGER EBERT / March 16, 2011 about us still playing I know how Eddie Morra About the site » feels. Like him, I know almost everything, but have cast & credits The Adjustment Bureau Site FAQs » forgotten most of it. We are Another Year told time and again that we Eddie Morra Bradley Cooper Barney's Version Battle: Los Angeles Contact us » use only a small portion of Carl Van Loon Robert De Niro Biutiful our brains and have Lindy Abbie Cornish Email the Movie Blue Valentine enough left over to run Gennady Andrew Howard Answer Man » Cedar Rapids nations in our down time. Melissa Anna Friel Certifiably Jonathan “Limitless” is about Eddie’s Certified Copy adventures after his ex- on sale now Relativity Media presents a film Cold Weather brother-in-law gives him a directed by Neil Burger. Written by The Company Men pill that suddenly puts his Country Strong Leslie Dixon, based on a novel by entire brain online. Drive Angry 3D Alan Glynn. Running time: 105 The Eagle He finishes his novel at minutes. Rated PG-13 (for Even the Rain typing speed. He wins at thematic material involving a drug, The Green Hornet poker, invests in the violence including disturbing Hall Pass market, and runs it up to images, sexuality and language). Hidden Love millions. He fascinates a The Housemaid I Am Number Four woman who had rejected Printer-friendly » I Will Follow E-mail this to a friend » Buy now » him as a loser. He knows The Illusionist intuitively how to handle Inspector Bellamy situations that used to Ip Man 2 baffle him. He is hailed as Jane Eyre the Wall Street guru of the Just Go With It age. Kaboom Limitless Eddie is played by Bradley Cooper as a schlep who becomes a king. The Lincoln Lawyer This sort of mental rags-to-riches progression has inspired a lot of Louder Than a Bomb movies; ever see Cliff Robertson in “Charly” (1968)? The difference Loveless Buy now » here is that Eddie Mora remains himself before and after, and all The Mechanic that changes is his ability to recall everything he ever saw or heard. My Dog Tulip No Strings Attached “Limitless” assumes that would be a benefit and make him rich, but Of Gods and Men what if most of what he ever saw or heard about Wall Street was Outside the Law wrong (as it usually is)? Paul Poetry The movie sidesteps the problem that what we need is more Rango intelligence and a better ability to reason, not a better memory. For Red Riding Hood memory, modern man has Google. There’s no need to stumble over The Rite Buy now » such technicalities, however; given its premise “Limitless” is passably Sanctum entertaining. Abbie Cornish plays Lindy, the successful young Season of the Witch professional woman who dumps Eddie as a loser and falls for him all Strongman over again when he becomes a winner. This is not sneaky on her Take Me Home Tonight part; there is every reason to dump the original Eddie and many Unknown good ones to return. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie Waste Land The Way Back Eddie grows entangled in three problems. One has to do with the Win Win source of the magic pills; the brother-in-law is no longer in a position to reveal it. The second has to do with a mob loan shark who liked more current releases » Buy now » being smart and wants to get that way again. on dvd The third involves Carl Van Loon, played by Robert De Niro as one of the richest men in America. He hires Eddie as an investment new on dvd magician, Eddie loses his touch when he runs out of pills, he regains it, and so on. De Niro is not well used in the role, because he plays Van Loon straight and in one dimension. Don’t you suppose he Topsy-Turvy (3/29) could have been supplied with a quirk of his own? The twist at the The Times of Harvey Milk (3/29) end comes too late. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (3/29) Mesrine: Killer Instinct (3/29) Buy now » Fair Game (3/29) Bradley Cooper fits well into the two versions of Eddie Morra, and Black Swan (3/29) director Neil Burger does inventive visual effects in showing how All Good Things (3/29) time telescopes for Eddie and the answers to problems seem to Waste Land (3/15) materialize before his eyes. A subplot about a murder, however, Hidden Love (3/15) raises questions it doesn’t answer, and all the quasi-criminal stuff Hereafter (3/15) seems a little perfunctory. The movie is not terrifically good, but the premise is intriguing; it doesn’t really set out to explore what such a more new on dvd » pill might really to do a person. “Limitless” only uses 15, maybe 20 coming on dvd percent of its brain. Still, that’s more than a lot of movies do. Buy now » Araya (4/5) I Love You Phillip Morris (4/5) Jersey Girl (4/5) Tron (4/5) Tron: Legacy (4/5) DIRECTV® Official Site Dead Man (4/12) Save Now. 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