Limitless

Limitless (2011) is Neil Burger's science-fiction thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Eddie Morra is a broke writer staring down a blank page when an old contact hands him a clear pill called NZT.

Suddenly his brain fires on every cylinder. The book he couldn't finish pours out overnight. He picks up languages in days, reads the stock market like a children's book, and trades a filthy apartment for a penthouse over Manhattan. Bradley Cooper plays a man who has met the sharper version of himself and can't bear to go back. Trouble is, the supply runs low, the crash is brutal, and other people want the drug badly enough to kill for it. Robert De Niro shows up as financier Carl Van Loon, who sees Eddie as leverage rather than a partner.

Based on Alan Glynn's novel The Dark Fields, the film is less a power fantasy than a study of acceleration and its bill coming due. Restless editing, mounting paranoia, a clock always ticking. Stream Limitless (2011) online on iFILM.