Just ask Eddie Morra, a slobby aspiring novelist with a huge writing block and the ugliest ponytail you ever, ever saw. Furthermore, why would an artist take such a career detour anyway? A hot-shot author throwing off best-sellers every few months and claiming an ungodly celebrity status would not only have been more interesting but more logical to boot.It's amazing what a little pill can do. Russian gangsters and Wall Street crooks are so tired by now.
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Well, filmmakers tell the stories they want to tell, but here those choices compromised the movie by their insistence on sticking to known genre elements rather than letting this Faust tale takes a more natural, uncharted course. The consequence of this obsession with genre material is that potentially fruitful plot elements such as Eddie’s newfound relationship with Libby and his confrontation with an ex-wife ( Anna Friel), who suffers from the after-effects of prolonged NZT use, get tossed aside. Police also dog Eddie, whom they suspect of murdering a young model - an element that feels like a desperate attempt to up the suspense ante. A Russian goon ( Andrew Howard) never feels like the right sort of villain for this kind of movie - and he isn’t - while the stalker turns out a more reliable bad guy but comes into play too late in the movie to be effective. Then gangsters and stalkers begin to shadow Eddie. First the author oddly switches careers by becoming the overnight wonder boy of Wall Street, a turn that brings the movie to a near halt with computer day trading, conferences with brokers, meetings with Van Loon and a litany of data and flow charts that stops just short of power-point presentations. But the movie takes a couple of hard right turns before getting to those side effects. Obviously, there are going to be side effects to such persistent and strenuous use of a brain’s synapses. His girlfriend now wants him back and a mega-mogul, Carl Van Loon ( Robert De Niro) - gotta love that name - brings him aboard to mastermind a huge corporate merger.īurger tries all kinds of visual trickery to imagine the hyper flow of information into a highly receptive brain: When Eddie is writing, letters fall from the ceiling multiple Eddies are seen performing tasks flattering light gently bathes Eddie’s face and, in the most inventive yet strangely unsuccessful gimmick, the camera appears to rush through Manhattan streets, gobbling up blocks within seconds. In no time, “enhanced Eddie” has dashed off his novel, speaks Italian to a maitre d’, bangs every girl he desires and amasses a fortune playing the stock market. Fortunately, Eddie is able to find the entire drug stash - interestingly enough, without benefit of a smart pill - enough for many, many months. The trouble is the supplier is somewhat indisposed - another client in an even more acute situation has murdered him and tossed his apartment looking for more pills.
The effect apparently wears off in a day, so Eddie gets back with his supplier for more pills. Okay, a few exaggerations, but you cut the movie some slack and see how this plays out. The movie perhaps overstates the possibilities here by giving the “addict” not only a phenomenal ability to learn and retain data but also a sixth sense that lets him anticipate future events, have knowledge he would not yet possess, a charisma his old self lacked and even newfound martial-arts abilities, the latter from memories of Bruce Lee movies! This particular pharmaceutical allows Eddie access to 100 percent of his brain. Always a slick hustler, this Mephistopheles is pushing a new, unregulated drug called NZT. By chance, he runs into his ex-brother-in-law ( Johnny Whitworth). Not so disappointing, though, that Relativity Media won’t see some smart money heading its way as Cooper goes into overdrive in a performance that makes a script by the estimable Leslie Dixon ( Outrageous Fortune) and quirky direction by Neil Burger ( The Illusionist) seem better than they are.Ī New York author named Eddie Morra (Cooper) is faced with monumental “writer’s block” - i.e., he hasn’t written a single word of a novel long overdue - then gets a sweet goodbye from his long-suffering girlfriend, Lindy ( Abbie Cornish).
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