Friday, March 18, 2011

Limitless: PG-13


Limitless is about a broke writer with writers block who comes across an amazing pill, thanks to his ex-brother in law. If one takes said pill daily it will make them 'limitless', helping them to remember everything they ever learned, saw, or did. Pretty much all the information in the world is now available to the pill's user. Eddie (the writer) begins taking this pill and is suddenly able to do everything. However, of course there's a catch. First of all, the pill is highly addictive causing the user to go through massive withdrawals and eventually die if they stop taking it. Eddie learns this when he stops taking the pill because his mind is skipping time, making it so he can't account for the last 18 hours of his life. Also, there are a lot of people who want to kill him for this pill, obviously making life very difficult for him. So, is it worth it?
Well, I really wanted to like this movie, unfortunately that was not the case. It seemed to drag on forever, like it was limitless! And they never seemed to complete their thoughts, storyline-wise. Something interesting would start to happen, then they wouldn't expound upon it, and just move on to the next thing so it was no longer interesting. I felt like the same things kept happening, over and over again, leaving me wondering when the movie was ever going to end. Then when it did end, it did just that. Ended. Period. It ended so abruptly that I said out loud "Are you kidding me?" And the girl next to me yelled, "WHAT???" Then the guy on the other side of her said, "Maybe we missed something..." But alas, we didn't miss anything. It looked to me like they were going for more of an Inception type ending, where you're not sure what happened and you go home and think about it, but Limitless failed in their delivery of that idea.
It is rated PG13 for language (including the F-bomb), sexual content, and a scene of graphic violence. The graphic violence scene was just gross and had everyone in the theater going "eeew!!" And I agreed with them!
If you still feel that you must see this movie, I'd say you should be at least 15.
Once again, I really wanted to like this movie, but they didn't give me much to go off of. This wasn't just me either, everyone I saw it with was on the same page of opinions with this one. Save your money, this movie is not worth seeing.

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