LIMITLESS

TITLE: Limitless

GENRE: Film
YEAR: Last year
SPANISH TITLE: Sin Limites
CATEGORY: Fantasy / Adventure
TAPE TYPE: Netflix Online Watch™ or DVD
STARS: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro
PRICE: (varies)
REQUIREMENTS: Any DVD player will play this DVD.

I saw this movie a couple days ago. I was pretty impressed. I went into it with a lot of expectations that I'd formed based off the DVD case. I'd gathered that it was about a very smart, well-dressed man, and that he enjoyed looking into the distance while making connections in his brain. This would prove to be the backbone of the film's plot.

It's about a 40-something-year-old loafer who runs into his ex-wife's brother-in-law, who gives him a magic pill that makes him smarter. (That's the fantasy element of the video.) It makes him so smart that he quits dressing like a 50-year-old college professor and gets some real clothes (pictured) :

Note how pale and ill-defined the hero is on the left; but on the right, he not only looks sharp as in having a sharp wardrobe and haircut; but his facial features are actually more sharply defined.

So anyway the hero of the movie gets really smart; and what do all smart people do? They seduce every woman they see! And once they've done that, they go back to their ex-girlfriend who broke up with them right before they became smart and win her back. (Even though she's just an accountant or something, and he's like a billionaire.)


Then they invest in the stock market and become billionaires. Oh wait, I got ahead of myself... You already knew he was a billionaire. Well anyway, that happens, and then Robert De Niro comes along and wants to hire our hero as a consultant in his corporation:

(I just want to comment on the rather interesting juxtaposition in this shot, in which we only see the top 10% of Robert De Niro, and the bottom-right 20%-or-so of the hero's face. It seems to suggest wariness; mistrust; and vengeance. It also seems to imply that although De Niro is the smaller man, he has glasses, which means that he can see better; but better than his rivals?)

The hero is sick of making money, and he feels guilty because he hasn't had a job for a long time, so he takes the job; even though the pay probably isn't that high, and no matter what he does, De Niro keeps giving him guff.

Then, the typical "movie stuff" happens: conflict is introduced; the character fights through it (that's the adventure part of the DVD); and eventually he rides off into the sunset with the girl (more or less).

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it's also a romance. Anyway,

RATING: 7/10