2011 · thriller · mystery · sci-fi
Limitless
Directed by Neil Burger1h 46m2011
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Our read: Limitless (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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How Limitless feels to watch.
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“You want a loser who takes a pill and masters the world overnight.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike stories centered on drug use or violent comeuppance.
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