Limitless: Odeon
Dir Neil Burger; Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro; Screenplay Leslie Dixon; Cinematography Jo Willems
Stylish thriller based on the novel The Dark Fields written by Alan Glynn. Eddie Murra has writer’s block until he is introduced to NZT. He writes his book in four days learns French, Italian and Mandarin; and deals the stock exchange. But the highs come with a price: memory loss and the implication in a women’s murder. At base level the film’s real hook is that Eddie Murra uses the knowledge and experience that he already has in order to access all intellectual and sensory experience; this is a very seductive premise. We inhabit Eddie’s world as he experiences it, making us complicit in everything he does. Throw in some Russian thugs, De Niro as foil, New York’s Soho and Xray-shots of those neon streets and you have a thriller as efficacious as the best quick fix
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