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Lindy (Abbie Cornish) renews her interest in Eddie (Bradley Cooper) after he becomes addicted to a self-improvement drug in “Limitless.” |
It’s an action-packed superhero comic book!
It’s a cautionary drug-addiction drama!
It’s a cynical neo-noir thriller!
It’s a … a … what the heck is it?
Neil Burger’s “Limitless” doesn’t defy conventions. It embraces all of them. Then it whips up an incendiary cocktail of ideas and colors sparking and exploding like the synapses of human brain cells after being flooded with LSD.
Super zoom shots rocket down New York streets and sidewalks as if the camera lens suddenly leapt into quasi-hyperspace.
Supersaturated colors radiate from the screen with Geiger-counter measurability.
And then there are Bradley Cooper’s blue eyes, twinkling azure orbs that become hypnotically iridescent the moment he pops a revolutionary drug called NZT into his mouth.
“Limitless” opens with an action scene that actually occurs 20 minutes later in the narrative. When this happens, it’s usually a sign the filmmakers think they have a boring beginning and don’t trust the audience to stay awake through it. (Read more…)