When we initially meet Eddie, Limited, he's one of the worst kinds of people on earth: a writer. He doesn't actually write anything, but he DOES have a book deal for a sci-fi novel with a premise that baffles the Regular Joe beer drinkers at the bar where Eddie goes when he should be working.
His apartment is cheap and dirty. His hair is too long. His girlfriend is hot and smart and nice and accomplished, and she's obviously breaking up with him because he is broke, a loser, never going to get it together, nice but naive, yet still hot. He's Bradley Cooper, after all.
But to this point in the movie, he's just another nice guy who finishes last. The fateful moment when Eddie meets his ex-brother-in-law, who tells him about this new drug named NZT that's what "the boys in the kitchen are calling it". NZT is essentially Adderall, but it actually makes you as smart and effective as you feel on Adderall. Eddie gives it a shot, because now that he's without a girlfriend he has hit Rock Bottom, and the next thing you know, Eddie rattles off some fancy law knowledge to convince his landlord's demanding daughter to sleep with him instead of demanding his unpayable rent.
Turns out he must've read something about legal cases before, and all that information was just camping out in the dark, inaccessible recesses of his brain for year, collecting dust.
Thanks to NZT, it's free! This drug is incredible! At this point, the NZT lifestyle closely resembles the simplistic self-improvement and personal growth strategies hawked by figures who have gained increasing influence in the decade since Limitless arrived. Eddie Morra may as well have been watching Jordan Peterson videos — the first thing he does with his newfound boundless intelligence and motivation is clean up his room. Good start! Then he needs to get his pesky novel out of the way, which he does in three days, because writing a novel, of all the activities that could occupy a Big-Time Brain Genius's mind, is small potatoes.
A man with a limitless brain should be doing what all men with big brains do: finance. So that's exactly what he does. He trades stocks. He has lots of sex. He makes money. He learns Italian while whipping his body into killer shape. He impresses at parties. He has more sex with socialites and models and other appendages of wealth. He realizes he can fight because he's watched kung fu movies.
He makes more money. He eats at fancy restaurants. He jumps off cliffs into pristine waters. After sufficiently establishing his virtuosic money talents, Eddie meets with Carl Van Loon seriously! We are told time and again that we use only a small portion of our brains and have enough left over to run nations in our down time. He finishes his novel at typing speed. He wins at poker, invests in the market, and runs it up to millions. He fascinates a woman who had rejected him as a loser.
He knows intuitively how to handle situations that used to baffle him. He is hailed as the Wall Street guru of the age. Eddie is played by Bradley Cooper as a schlep who becomes a king. The difference here is that Eddie Mora remains himself before and after, and all that changes is his ability to recall everything he ever saw or heard.
The movie sidesteps the problem that what we need is more intelligence and a better ability to reason, not a better memory. For memory, modern man has Google. Abbie Cornish plays Lindy, the successful young professional woman who dumps Eddie as a loser and falls for him all over again when he becomes a winner. This is not sneaky on her part; there is every reason to dump the original Eddie and many good ones to return. Eddie grows entangled in three problems. Patricia Kalember Mrs.
Atwood as Mrs. Neil Burger. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's Cooper rejection by girlfriend Lindy Abbie Cornish confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to NZT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser-focused and more confident than any man alive.
Now on an NZT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon De Niro , who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions, but brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent.
With a dwindling stash and hit men who will eliminate him to get the NZT, Eddie must stay wired long enough to elude capture and fulfill his destiny. If he can't, he will become just another victim who thought he'd found invincibility in a bottle. What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?
Rated PG for thematic material involving a drug, violence including disturbing images, sexuality and language. Did you know Edit.
Trivia Bradley Cooper 's father was ill with terminal cancer during the filming of this movie, and Cooper was accordingly relieved that the movie was shot in his hometown of Philadelphia so that he could check on his father every day. Quotes Eddie Morra : Well, in order for a career to evolve, I'm gonna have to move on. These edits were mainly reverts from not having an R rating for the theatrical release.
User reviews Review. Top review. Here he headlines his first major motion picture, taking over a role once filled by Shia LaBeouf who backed out of the film after hurting his arm in an automobile accident. A film with Robert De Niro playing a supporting player! As a whole the movie is entertaining but nothing great and Cooper's leading man performance is adequate but not spectacular. The film tells the story of a down on his luck writer who takes a secret drug which enhances the level his brain is able to function at, making him 'super smart'.
He's struggling to meet a deadline for a book he's been contracted to write when he stumbles upon his ex brother-in-law Johnny Whitworth who offers him a free sample of an unknown pharmaceutical drug called NZT. The drug provides him the ability to use a hundred percent of his brain's full capacity, as opposed to the supposed normal twenty percent, and makes him super confident.
When he comes across a full stash of the drug he begins succeeding at everything he had always dreamed of. Then the side effects kick in and he discovers there are others after the drug as well that will stop at no cost to get a hold of it. The movie has an interesting premise and is played out at an amusing pace but it's full of holes and moral detachment.
Without giving away too much I'll just say that if you stop to think about many details in the story they don't really make sense. There's also several things the main character does in the film that are highly morally questionable yet they're portrayed as if they're heroic actions.
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