i actually watched Limitless back when i was in middle school and for YEARS i couldn't remember the title. all i remembered was this weird fever dream movie about a guy taking a magic brain pill and suddenly becoming insanely smart. genuinely thought i hallucinated the whole thing at some point 🤔. finally remembered the title recently and decided to rewatch it and honestly... yeah the movie still feels like a fever dream 😭. honestly Limitless had one of the coolest sci fi premises ever and somehow still managed to feel weirdly shallow. the idea of a pill unlocking your full brain capacity sounds INSANE on paper. like okay... now we're talking galaxy brain territory. solving the mysteries of the universe, discovering impossible scientific breakthroughs, bending reality itself maybe? but nah. this man took god tier intelligence and used it to become a Wall Street finance bro :/ that's honestly my biggest issue with the movie. Eddie never really evolves into something beyond a greedy capitalist fantasy. he just turns into a richer, smoother version of every sigma male grindset guy you'd mute on twitter. the film keeps acting like his transformation is mindblowing but all he really does is chase money, power, and status. the vision felt sooo limited for a movie literally called Limitless. and the visuals during the NZT scenes lowkey annoyed me too. every time the drug kicks in the movie starts blasting oversaturated colors and weird fisheye lens effects like an Axe body spray commercial. if my brain suddenly became hyper intelligent i'd expect my senses to become sharper and clearer. what makes it even more frustrating is that the movie had potential to go way darker and smarter with the moral consequences. Eddie barely suffers in the end. the film almost feels like it's saying "yeah abusing experimental drugs is kinda awesome actually" because this dude basically speedran his way into becoming a powerful politician with almost no real punishment for his greed 💀 which is funny because in real life, people compare NZT to smart drugs and nootropics like Adderall or Modafinil. except reality isn't a cool Bradley Cooper montage. long term abuse usually leads to anxiety, insomnia, burnout, and your body crashing HARD. but ngl... Bradley Cooper carried this movie on his back. he's charismatic as hell and the thriller pacing keeps things entertaining enough that i never got bored. i just wish the story aimed higher instead of stopping at "what if capitalism but smarter?" i rewatched Lucy too and Lucy honestly did the whole "100% brain usage" concept way better for me. messier movie maybe, but at least it had the guts to go fully insane with the idea instead of turning into wolf of wall street with a sci-fi filter.