The movie is not terrifically good, but the premise is intriguing; it doesn’t really set out to explore what such a pill might really to do a person. 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. More than “The Hangover” or, goodness knows, “All About Steve,” “Limitless” is a showcase for his gift of exemplary just-above-averageness. Too many matters, medical and otherwise, go unexplained, and the intimations of grand conspiracy that pursue Eddie don’t quite pay off the way you want them to. It’s an unexpectedly funny movie, and for a while this seems mainly like a function of Mr. Cooper’s charm. Finish a piece of writing on deadline. Rated PG-13 (for thematic material involving a drug, violence including disturbing images, sexuality and language). Directed by Neil Burger; written by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel “The Dark Fields,” by Alan Glynn; director of photography, Jo Willems; edited by Naomi Geraghty; music by Paul Leonard-Morgan; production design by Patrizia von Brandenstein; costumes by Jenny Gering; produced by Ms. Dixon, Scott Kroopf and Ryan Kavanaugh; released by Relativity Media. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes.  Limitless 
 
 March 16, 2011 
 
 Cast & Credits Eddie Morra Bradley Cooper 
 
 Carl Van Loon Robert De Niro 
 
 Lindy Abbie Cornish 
 
 Gennady Andrew Howard 
 
 Melissa Anna Friel 
 
 
 
 Relativity Media presents a film directed by Neil Burger.
– Limitless, in which Bradley Cooper plays a struggling writer who takes a pill to vastly expand his brain power, may not exactly be award-worthy—but critics agree it's a fun ride: In the New York Times, AO Scott calls the movie “an energetic, enjoyably preposterous compound—it’s a paranoid thriller blended with pseudo-neuro-science fiction and catalyzed by a jolting dose of satire.” But, he notes, sometimes “the filmmakers seem to have misplaced their supply of coherence pills.” Peter Travers observes that “the plot hits some nasty speed bumps, and the ending is rote. But getting there is terrific,” he writes in Rolling Stone. “Watching Eddie flex his brain cells delivers a kick on par with Spider-Man testing his skills with small skips and jumps until he is leaping across rooftops.” Notes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: “Limitless only uses 15%, maybe 20% of its brain. Still, that’s more than a lot of movies do.”