Marks to this movie which comes up with an original concept. Bradley Cooper plays an author who has extreme writer’s block. He comes across an old friend who supplies him with a new drug which allows him to access parts of his brain he normally doesn’t access. For the day he is able to operate in overdrive, he writes his book in no time at all but that’s not enough for him until eventually he is brought into one of the biggest mergers in business history by Robert De Niro. There are bad guys and there are good guys who are bad buys.

The movie is action packed, extremely violent and fast-paced. Bradley Cooper proves that he can do justice to an action role. Solid acting in support roles by De Niro and various other cast members. The only let down, as with many movies in this category, is the predictable end. Still it was a nice ride to the end.