See 'Limitless' Just for Van Loon

Reviews are rolling out. Perhaps my favorite comment is by A.O. Scott:

...the filmmakers seem to have misplaced their supply of coherence pills. Too many matters, medical and otherwise, go unexplained, and the intimations of grand conspiracy that pursue Eddie don’t quite pay off the way you want them to.

Betsy Sharkey says much the same:

But smart isn't all it's cracked up to be and soon the movie is unraveling faster than all of Eddie's grand schemes. The pill may be new, but the lessons are old — all drugs have side effects and all the smarts in the world don't keep you from making dumb decisions. The latter, perhaps something the filmmakers should have paid more mind to.

It occurs to me that one reason, perhaps the most meaningful reason, I'm going to see this movie (sometime, on disc or stream or whatever, a few minutes at a time), is to see just why anyone would allow a character to have the name Van Loon (Robert De Niro).