Limitless - Review

If you're looking for something exciting to do this weekend. You can stop looking. Limitless is a fast actioned thriller that will have you glued to the big screen. Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in this paranoia infused race to the top.

The movie starts off with some (already) amazing film work. We race through the streets, stores and subways of New York City at a dizzing speed to catch up with Eddie Mora (Cooper). At first glance you're not sure of his character. Is he homeless? A musician? No, Eddie is a starving artist suffering from serious writer's block.

Eddie runs into an old drug dealing friend of his. Seeing Eddie in this state, his friend offers to help and introduces him to a new pharmaceutical drug called NZT. Curiousity gets the best of Eddie and he ingests this pill.

His life changes instantly. Eddie sees, thinks, hears, recalls everything clearer and in technicolour. His motivation skyrockets and the fun begins.

This pill has enabled him to tap into his full potential. Eddie cleans up his act, writes a top selling book in a matter of days, learns 5 new languages in minutes. The skies the limit with this new found energy.

He then goes on to become a wall street genius where he catches the attention of business tycoon, Carl Van Loon (De Niro).

You won't be able to take your eyes off the screen and will be so engaged with the story that you won't even see the end coming.

Get ready for an action filled ride of your life. This suspensful thriller has everything in it. Limitless definitely delivers!

The story will draw you in. The acting is fanastic and the cast is perfect.

I LOVED this movie and have a distinct feeling that it will be up for awards this year.

Go see it!

In theatres this Friday.

Click on this link for the preview.

http://www.alliancefilms.com/en/34/trailers/play_trailer/12578/default_high/L/0/

Mars Needs Moms - Review

Well, Disney did it again. The special effects in this movie are absolutely second to none. "Motion Capture" techniques in 3D. Wow! They were outstanding and you'd swear the animation is real.

Too bad the screenplay was not enough to support the fantastic computer generated imagery.

This movie is very loosely (one should hope) based on a book by Pultzer Prizing winning Berkley Breathed who has also been know to submit politically flavoured cartoons to the Washington Post.

I'm not sure what message Director Simon Wells (the great grandson of pioneering sci-fi author H.G. Wells) was trying to depict to the young children but I think it fell very flat.

The story starts out with mothers and children and shows how everyone is interacting. More specifically, how the mom's are disciplining the children. Then it pans over to Mars. It appears that an old female man hating martian is in search of a certain type of mother to bring to Mars. They end up kidnapping a mom who is a firm yet caring discplinary figure. Her son unexpectedly hitches a ride with the space ship while trying to save her. They arrive on Mars where they will soon find out that the entire planet is controlled by an army of women. That's because the men martians are thrown into the bowels of Mars (the garbage dump) because they are silly and want to dance all time. This happens at martian childhood so the men and women are seperated at birth.

The mom from earth has been transported to Mars so that the man hating head martian (the supervisor) can suck all the information out of her brain with this contraption. They will then insert the information into robot nannies to raise the girl martians so that the women martians can keep being the hardcore army martians they were raised to be. Once they get the information out of the human mom, they will leave her to die.

There was none of the usual "oooooh-ing or aaaaaaaah-ing" from the children. No chuckles. No cheering. In fact, there was not a peep from the children. Not a one.

As we left the theatre, the parents looked bewildered and the children looked as if someone had taken their candy.