We went to see "Limitless" by default as the movies opening today weren't the type I care for like one was a sci-fi, another a horror and the third not an interesting enough animated film.

I
got caught up in the film from some camera shots showing the Times
Square of today with shots enfolding upon each other over and over
again. The first hour held my interest. Who wouldn't want to take a pill
that would use a 100% of their brains for success at business, in sex,
writing a best seller, possibly even becoming President of the United
States. Bradley Cooper is the man who becomes addicted to the pill,
given to him by his ex-brother-in-law, after having writer's block,
losing the woman he loves, Abbie Cornish, becoming unfocused with his
life , all in all a failure. He pops the pill and all of a sudden his
life is turned around but is it for the better?

I
don't remember how long into the  film that it just turned turned into
just another Hollywood one trick pony but I think it was with Cooper's
throwing up on screen and then pretty soon, unnecessary, graphic
violence. There are red herrings, and excess characters, such as the
Russian loan shark who could have been paid off almost immediately and
ended that story line and some of the ugly violence.

There is a lot of sharp wit and satire in the first hour that is forgotten in the last 45 minutes.

Bradley
Cooper is a sharp actor who can handle comedy and drama equally with
ease and makes his character believable as a winner or loser and let's
not forget those eyes! Abbie Cornish disappears for a long time from the
film and the role as 'the girlfriend' is wasting her talent. Talking
about wasting their talent is Robert DeNiro walking through his role as a Wall Street tycoon.

Aside from thinking of the possibilities of the pill I found most of the photography from the director of photography, Jo Willems, and director Neil Buger, holding the film up until that vomiting scene.