Review: Limitless

For a film about using the full potential of your brain, Limitless ends up working best when you switch your brain off.

Taking it's cue from Fight Club, director Neil Burger makes use of a wide range of digital effects straight out of Fincher's playbook - but an underdeveloped supporting cast and an unsatisfactory ending means Limitless falls shirt of such a high watermark.

Bradley Cooper excels in the lead role, but those looking for their De Niro fix will be left disappointed that he plays such a minor role. Abbie Cornish gets a bit more screen time, but that seemingly consists of little more than breaking up with Cooper/then changing her mind for the duration of the film. Limitless's premise is a good one and does manage to hold your interest throughout , but its pushed to breaking point by an over-reliance on the NZT-40 pill's powers to explain the increasingly silly storyline.

By the time the film does reach its close, several minor plots and characters have been forgotten, but the decision to keep things short and snappy is the right one - but the terrible epilogue makes a mockery of the previous 90 minutes with the ease he dodges trouble, leaving you wondering why he didn't just that at the start to save us all load of bother.