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Limitless
2011
· Movie
· 105 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1979
- IMDb #1183
- Google retired #1089
- Rotten Tomatoes #2337
- Metacritic #2164
- Letterboxd #2611
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2850
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2209
- Metacritic Critics #2528
- Metacritic Audience #1500
- Criticker #1803
- Douban #1123
- Kinopoisk #255
- AlloCiné #1101
- Trakt #766
Every rating
48–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Google on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A struggling writer discovers a top-secret drug that unlocks the full potential of the human brain. The pill grants him superhuman intelligence, memory, and focus, rapidly transforming him into a financial genius. However, his newfound success attracts dangerous attention from powerful figures who want the drug for themselves, while the side effects of the medication begin to take a severe toll.
Details
- Director
- Neil Burger
- Writer
- Leslie Dixon
- Based on
- The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
- Released
- 17 March 2011
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Russian, Italian, Mandarin, French
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $27.0M
- Box office
- $161.9M
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Awards
2 wins & 8 nominations total
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