An average movie

Since I’m still a huge fan of Robert de Niro, I still wanted to check this flick, even though I had some rather low expectations. Eventually, I found it rather difficult to judge this movie. Indeed, half of it was pretty neat and entertaining but the other half was just pure garbage. I mean, the concept was actually pretty awesome and I loved the idea of a human being who could use all his brain. Furthermore, I thought that Bradley Cooper was well cast and he delivered a solid performance. It was also visually pretty neat but I thought also that it was a lot of camouflage to hide the fact that they didn’t really know how to visually display this concept. Still, like I said before, there was also tons of garbage. To start with, Abbie Cornish was terribly underused and I’d rather not talk about Robert de Niro… Such a legendary actor showing up for such an uninteresting part… I mean, any actor could have done this job and it was just yet another disappointing title to his already disappointing (recent) resume. Furthermore, I thought there were some huge plot holes. For example, at some point, it was made clear that the drug was lethal and the main character was supposed to die soon. So, he wisely decided to stop and his girlfriend was supporting him. But then, 5 minutes later, he was back on the drugs and everything was fine and, at the end, he was having diner with his girlfriend and everything is peachy?!? It is obvious that the makers at the end couldn’t make up their mind about this drug. Was it bad? Was it lethal? or ws it actually really awesome? Eventually, the biggest issue, in my opinion, is that, in spite of its title, this movie was actually terribly limited when you consider the scope. Basically, when the main character becomes the smartest man on Earth, he decides to become a Wall Street yuppie?!? Couldn’t they come up with something more inspiring than this? Still, it remains a pretty cool concept and I was entertained more or less through the whole thing and I still think it is worth a look but don’t expect anything amazing though.

6/10