Couldn't it be nice to have superpowers? To learn Chinese during the weekend? To get a master's degrees while riding on a train? To be invincible? To use 100% of one's potential powers? Sure, it would.
Of course this movie is built on a false assumption, as we actually use all of our brain. I have problem to enjoy a film, when I know that the basic assumption of the plot is wrong. But let's for a while assume that we actually can dope our brains and achieve whatever comes to our minds.
Eddie Mora is a writer. He obviously managed to convince a publishing firm of his project and then he contracted a writing blockage. He is drifting around, talking about the masterpiece he cannot beget. Enters the brother of his ex, who gives him a pill to enhance his brain power. And in a jiffy he has written the novel. End of writing career - now he is aiming at other things. Although it is sexy to have a four-digit IQ, it is even more sexy to have money. What he wants to do with that money? No idea.
Now Eddie does something, a guy with superpowers really shouldn't do: he takes a loan from a Russian loan shark. Yes, he is compromised and soon everybody is hunting the pill and Eddie. At the same time he learns, that there are side effects.
However, Eddie outsmarts the criminals and gets a super brain even without the drug. Now he knows what he wants: power. He wants to become a senator.
The script is very sloppy, with holes as big as the deficit of Greece and without aim and direction. At some point it seems to be a demasking of the financial world's greed. Then it is a thriller like a drug war. At some point it is also a romance - about Eddie, getting back his wife. This hot pot is generally quite entertaining though, as long as you are not looking for substance. Easy to watch - and even easier to forget.
Bradley Cooper plays the slick snot in an enjoyable manner.
I read that director Neil Burger is going to make a remake of Les Intouchables. Sir, this name is there for a reason: you don't rework a masterpiece. You just don't do that.
5/10
Of course this movie is built on a false assumption, as we actually use all of our brain. I have problem to enjoy a film, when I know that the basic assumption of the plot is wrong. But let's for a while assume that we actually can dope our brains and achieve whatever comes to our minds.
Eddie Mora is a writer. He obviously managed to convince a publishing firm of his project and then he contracted a writing blockage. He is drifting around, talking about the masterpiece he cannot beget. Enters the brother of his ex, who gives him a pill to enhance his brain power. And in a jiffy he has written the novel. End of writing career - now he is aiming at other things. Although it is sexy to have a four-digit IQ, it is even more sexy to have money. What he wants to do with that money? No idea.
Now Eddie does something, a guy with superpowers really shouldn't do: he takes a loan from a Russian loan shark. Yes, he is compromised and soon everybody is hunting the pill and Eddie. At the same time he learns, that there are side effects.
However, Eddie outsmarts the criminals and gets a super brain even without the drug. Now he knows what he wants: power. He wants to become a senator.
The script is very sloppy, with holes as big as the deficit of Greece and without aim and direction. At some point it seems to be a demasking of the financial world's greed. Then it is a thriller like a drug war. At some point it is also a romance - about Eddie, getting back his wife. This hot pot is generally quite entertaining though, as long as you are not looking for substance. Easy to watch - and even easier to forget.
Bradley Cooper plays the slick snot in an enjoyable manner.
I read that director Neil Burger is going to make a remake of Les Intouchables. Sir, this name is there for a reason: you don't rework a masterpiece. You just don't do that.
5/10
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