What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?
| Cast |
Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth |
| Director |
Neil Burger |
| Screenplay | Leslie Dixon, from the novel by Alan Glynn |
| Music | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| Cinematography | Jo Willems |
| Editing | Tracy Adams, Naomi Geraghty |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2011 |
| Produced by | Many Rivers Productions, Boy of the Year, Intermedia, Relativity Media, Virgin Produced |
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| Genre | Drama, thriller |
| Language | Mild, fairly infrequent, in context |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Brief scenes of risque implied sex |
| Violence | Moderate to strong violence, some bloody gory scenes |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Mild, occasional |
| Drug abuse | Use and abuse of illegal hallucinogenic drugs, glamourisation. No unambiguous anti-drug message. |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Jeanne Calitz  Slimpil klink goed, maar bring gevaar | 10 | |
| Cape Times Christy Lemire Are you ready for super Cooper? | 15 |  |
| iAfrica.com Candace Whitehead | 10 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman | 14 | |
| 24.com Inge van Eetveldt | 10 | |
| Box Office Wade Major Limitless is the kind of slick trash that upstart distributors often embrace as a stepping stone to the sort of clumsily reckless trash at which big studios uniquely excel. | 5 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The movie is not terrifically good, but the premise is intriguing; it doesn’t really set out to explore what such a pill might really to do a person. Limitless only uses 15, maybe 20 percent of its brain. Still, that’s more than a lot of movies do. | 13 |  |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Erratic but often wickedly sly thriller. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli The problem with the movie isn't the acting, it's the story, which falls considerably short of the promise of its premise. For a plot about super-intelligent people, the screenplay is surprisingly dumb. | 13 | |
| ScreenIt T. Durgin Limitless is certainly watchable. The production values are there, and it is well acted. But I was expecting more. There should have been more. Burger, Cooper, and all concerned should have taken this concept to the limit. Instead, they only went so far. | 10 | |
| Metacritic.com 37 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 164 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Although its script is uneven, Neil Burger directs Limitless with plenty of visual panache, and Bradley Cooper makes for a charismatic star. | 14 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 11480 Netizens Unlimited Awesomeness | 15 | |
Average .. 58% | 12 | |