Limitless

I went to see this at the delightful Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue, where if you have a spare ten minutes before the film you can savour the ambience of the video games of the wonderful Trocadero centre. Anyway back to the film. Bradley Cooper stars as a thirtyish bloke in New York who is trying to be an author, without success, when he stumbles across some new illegal pills which make you hyper intelligent. His life unsurprisingly improves radically, but at some cost. Despite this slightly bizarre plot, the film had plenty of twists and turns and kept me interested throughout. Robert de Niro stars as a ruthless businessman.