Limitless - 5 stars out of 10
I take issue with "Limitless" because of its glamorous portrayal of drugs. Sure, it does show some of the dangers of drug usage, but the other 80% of the movie teaches the falsehood that you can make a better life for yourself if you are on mind-altering drugs. Instead of ending this film in the "Requiem for a Dream" way (a.k.a. the way that things are in real life), the ending shows that if you take drugs and then up the dosage to a near-lethal level... your life will be better than it ever could have been without them. I would be surprised if a large number of impressionable teenagers will not become curious and try drugs as a result of this film. That being said, the film does have an interesting theme of the possibilities if we could access more of our brain and some decent action sequences. Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro play their roles well and it was actually easy to look past the impossibilities in the plot. Unfortunately, I really can't recommend this film because it gives a horribly skewed portrayal of drug usage. Instead of lying to the audience and delivering a message that drugs can help a person live a normal, healthy lifestyle, I wish that they would've given Ozzie Osbourne a cameo in the final scene and said "If drug usage does not kill you first, this is what the remainder of your life will be."
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