Wednesday 6 April 2011

Limitless (2011)

Imagine Flowers for Algernon reworked for the Prozac age.

Imagine that instead of a morality tale, we get a pulp thriller involving shadowy forces (government, Wall Street, big pharma) that seem to have escaped from Aronovsky's Pi.

Limitless promises a heady, intellectual film but delivers standard potboiler thriller.

Read my full review at Fridae, first published on 6 April 2011.

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