Limitless | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@19nzinga]

This movie goes under the radar quite often. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone react to it. It’s such a good movie though. They even made a tv show about it.

[@rollotomassi6232]

There are a few other reactions to it, but very few. I love the movie, but many people hate it. Limitless is like the NickelBack of movies, but hey, I like NickelBack too.

[@ImTheCatman88]

The TV Show is trash though, the movie is pretty great though. I mean, not amazing, but a pretty good Thriller. I feel the structure and story is quite similar to Minority Report and Paycheck (both based off Philip K Dick stories).

[@AMX1904]

​@@ImTheCatman88 Thats your opinion but i enjoyed the show more than the movie.

[@Sillydogification]

There was a TV series based on this movie, it continued the story from a few years after the movie's time line... Also called "Limitless" it only lasted one season - but its very good, and worth checking out, and reacting too.

[@Fantomex.]

😊 i really like when she critiques thr russian in the movies. Its also funny when she says "banging" 😂

[@Stogie2112]

The temptation of taking that pill is huge. The chances of taking that pill and losing one's morals are equally huge!

[@robertwilson2007]

It would be resistible to play God for anyone.

[@kylelenhart599]

I took a extremely high dose of Adderall, And this is the most realistic way I could explain how I was feeling.

[@ThirteenthDiget-lg3in]

To answer your question, yes, I would take it. And like in the movie, I'd learn how to keep the access open without the pills.

[@jasonondik6003]

I loved this movie. I haven't seen it in years, but as soon as I saw the thumbnail, I remembered how much i liked it!

[@peperino25]

i recommend you : 🔥 *21 blackjack* (2008) _/starring _*_Kevin Spacey_* 🔥 *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1999) _/starring _*_Pierce Brosnan_*_ & _*_Rene Russo_* 🔥 *Wild Things* (1998) *_Neve Campbell_*_ , _*_Matt Dillon_*_ , _*_Denise Richards_*_ & _*_Kevin Bacon_*

[@Jerzeejaylive]

Great reaction. Not sure if you knew but the Russian gangster is actor, Andrew Howard, who is actually Welsh! This wasn’t the largest but a great role to show his talent. The only other film I know him for is Guy Ritchie’s, ‘Revolver’ which is really good too!

[@TenTonNuke]

I like how everyone pretends Bradley Cooper looks horrible just because he has long, unbrushed hair.

[@luke2design942]

Great reaction Dasha, other similar movies would be Trance starring James McAvoy and Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson

[@Alcagaur1]

I enjoyed this as a film, but I adored the TV series, and was almost as sad about its "one series wonder" status as I was with Firefly.

[@Kenneth_James]

Yeah, it didn't deserve to be canceled.

[@hackerx7329]

The TV show was far better than the movie. And that isn't what happens most of the time when they make a TV show based on a movie. Sometimes we get Limitless or Highlander or Sarah Connor Chronicles, other times we get messes like the TV series of Blue Thunder.

[@IcyTorment]

@@hackerx7329 I liked the Blue Thunder TV series. I was 8 years old at the time, though.

[@EdmontonRealEstate01]

Merry Christmas, Dasha. I hope you had an awesome one.

[@blakewalker84120]

26:55 "If you use your brain at full capacity eventually you'll crash because we're not designed to work that way." Except we are. We all use our brains at full capacity, all day, every day.

[@flatebo1]

The trope that we only use a small percentage of our brains dates back to at least the 1930s when brain research was very rudimentary. They had only figured out at that point what a few parts of the brain did, but from that incomplete knowledge a meme was born. Animals don't evolve anatomy that serves no purpose. And in humans, large brains area reproductive liability, leading to deaths in childbirth among other problems. So if humans didn't actually need all of our gray matter evolution would be actively selecting against it.

[@MrHale]

Well, not exactly, technically. We can't really recall memories in exact order or in an instance even though the memory is in your head. There are people with photographic memory, but the movie is more like if a pill gave you that. And multiply it by a thousand like Hollywood movies usually do.

[@blechtic]

I'm sure we're using our brains fully, but the real question is whether they are working efficiently. Our brains were organised by evolution, which sort of stops optimizing everything at "good enough for the cost". Sure, there are probably all sorts of underlying functions we don't know about or appreciate but all the functions that exist are likely working far below their fully optimized theoretical capacity. I think we also have potential capabilities we aren't utilising, because our brains aren't trained or organised that way. An example of that would be our very limited capacity beyond 3 dimensions: I see no real reason why we couldn't think or "visualise" in higher (spatial) dimensions in an abstract manner, but our brains are trained by growth in and by evolution inside what is essentially a 3D environment so that's about as high a dimension we can deal with "out of the box". One needs specialized training in specialized fields in order to gain a true feel past that and even then it is within that very specific context, not a generalized ability. With our ability for abstraction, being able think in higher dimensions and past those 6 (chess) moves ahead without resorting to heuristics and having a total recall of past events as well as having better bodily control (especially of microexpressions, etc.) would give a significant advantage in every sort of thinking, planning and doing.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

0:16 "thriller all the time." exactly.

[@brianboye8025]

Favorite movie! I also love the cinematography. Another dumb to genius movie is the classic Flowers for Algenon.

[@RenfrewPrume]

Great reaction. I love this movie, which isn't very well known. The story is inventive, the performances are top notch, and the direction/cinematography is so beautifully stylish. To answer your question, no, I would not take such a pill under any circumstances, not even if it were certified safe and effective.

[@tonyrossell832]

Merry Christmas to you and Hugo Dasha! And to everyone else. Keep up the great work.

[@justitia257]

Merry Christmas Beautiful Dasha, Merry Christmas Everyone

[@elliotcontreras8540]

Merry Christmas to Dasha Reacts

[@gallo162]

Merry Christmas Dasha!!! Please dont give up trying to say thriller! i love it when you say it correctly and i love it when you say it incorrectly!! Please react to Lucy (2014) and Side Effects (2013).

[@nilesstark]

Fun Fact: There was an alternate ending where Eddie was less prepared for Van Loon's attempt. But still chooses to reject Van Loon's deal and decides to work on cleaning up.

[@Rrz00]

The 20% myth still makes me laugh that they believe it haha

[@stevetanner3019]

Thanks for reacting to this great movie ❤️

[@chrisofnottingham]

Great reaction and I really love this movie. There is a spin off TV series that is pretty good too

[@jessetorres8738]

Merry Christmas, Dasha.

[@doug3691]

Merry Christmas Dasha!

[@Stogie2112]

С Рождеством, Dasha!

[@leoncochrane9540]

Happy Christmas Dasha

[@wiseoldman53]

Definitely agree that if you liked the movie, Dasha, then you would probably love the tv series of the same name.

[@Trifler500]

It was great. i miss it.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Merry Christmas Dasha 🥰❤️🌲

[@chrislagazon2020]

Verynice reaction it's good you enjoyed the movie. I will take the pill since I've read a lot but my memory is getting bad because of lack of sleep. Nice t-shirt 😅

[@DaveW90]

Great job at pronuncing "thriller". Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[@jamiewilson9280]

Brilliant film! Underrated in my opinion.

[@johnmguzman7491]

You said 'THRILLER '!! SO PROUD of you DASHA.❤

[@SFSpiegelbergSteinwayPianoForS]

Hi Dasha, just subscribed to you today because this popped up in my suggestions, and Limitless is one of my FAV movies of all time, because it's based on a drug I take every day, modafinil. I see at least one commenter here knows the movie is based on that, totally true, they took a real drug and greatly exaggerated it's genuine cool qualities into SUPER-cool sci-fi territory, but it is really real, and very very safe. I take it every morning legally and have for years and years. My insurance covers it because I have a weird sleep disorder it treats well, but I also get all the juicy IQ-ish side effects from the movie, but dialed way down from the movie. It is true, I take it and must clean and organize things before doing anything else when it hits, it's weird but accurate like the movie. Also suppresses appetite and yes, one must eat and sleep or get unpleasant (but not scary like movie!) side effects. It is a stimulant, but not related to any other stimulants, it's own class. Like, way more than coffee, but way less than amphetamines, and it feels "clear and invisible", I do not feel "high" at all, just enhanced. My cost because of insurance is $0.40 a day. 🙂

[@pymsapero7644]

Modafinil... just speed, another variety of amphet... but not bad at all... 😅

[@johnjay370]

On the DVD there was an alternate ending.

[@svtcontour]

Dasha, you dont need any pills, you're already a smart cookie :)

[@Trifler500]

19:54 - The bad guys might have a cell jammer

[@couch.patati-patata]

You should watch Source Code next. Has Jake Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmiga.

[@michaelriddick7116]

YES!!! Fantastic movie!!! 👍😎👍

[@EdwardVonKhil]

Yes! A much better movie!

[@Jerzeejaylive]

And the great Jeffrey Wright!

[@dominusliminus]

The pill similar to this movie is called modafinil, and similarly nuvigil. You can get them prescribed for narcolepsy or sleep work shift disorder, just means you works nights normally, I take it and works well as an alternative to adderrall but nothing like the movie, but it's effective

[@Stormie33]

I've had modafinil on my radar for a few years, never got around to trying it yet. Does it actually improve your mental functioning at all? My understanding was that it just makes you more motivated to get shit done (which is good enough on its own).

[@dominusliminus]

@@Stormie33 from my experience, yes you do have more motivation as your energy levels mentally are more up so all else follows. Does not increase base cognitive function, just utilizes more of it as you aren't tired. It's decently cheap and doesn't have the extreme crashes or addictions normally associated with other forms of stimulants.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

1:17 thriller. sounded like thriller to me. 🙂

[@RobertTaylor-gz2fu]

That's more like friller.

[@timlanteigne298]

Your hair is on point here.

[@E71]

I wonder if you'd watch the Limitless TV show at some point in future. Would love that. Anyway, awesome video & Merry Xmas.

[@Rising_Pho3nix_23]

If he was smart he would figure out how to manufacture the pill himself and then improve it. Make it more stable and longer lasting. Then he could drop all the weights holding him down.

[@alexthelegoguy4504]

This is such a good movie! And finally someone did a reaction to this hidden gem! The tv series is pretty good too!

[@babotond]

1:17 nailed it

[@GetMeThere1]

I had a lot of fun with this movie. I've also liked the movie "Lucy," which is also based on a story of super-intelligence.

[@milannesic5718]

Lucy movie is disliked because of the "10 percent of the brain" thing. But otherwise, it is a fantastic Sci-Fi movie. In almost all movies there is something factually wrong. Yet, people decide to dislike only some of those movies. OK, 10 percent is a myth, but how do you actually know that it is a complete myth? Did science fully explained the brain and the mind? Only misinformed people think that we solved all mysteries of the mind and brain. Movie is insanely fun

[@wddqe1.]

try friller, dont overthink it xD great reaction tho thanks

[@omarscarborough4274]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

[@gameplayti2909]

That's a great movie.

[@MH-jx1hc]

You do use 100% of your brain. Only small percentage of your brain is active at any one point because you do not want to feel what it would be like to have all your pain receptors firing at the same time as all your muscles contract and and all your senses cease to work because all of your primary sensory areas are being stimulated. The brain works because only a small amount of a vast network is active at anyone point. It's not just the inactivity that is important. You need the other areas of the brain to be inactive for a pattern to be apparent. It's like writing. If you cover a page entirely with ink it doesn't contain more information. It just means that anything that you wrote on it is obscured by meaningless noise.

[@matchu.j]

Love the accent...good movie

[@blakewalker84120]

21:15 "Wouldn't you die from infection first?" Definitely not. IF that guy has a bloodborne infection like Hepatitis, you usually need to put his blood straight into your blood, like sharing drug needles or something. Even if swallowing his blood would give you Hepatitis, that would probably never kill you, but it can destroy your liver over many years which will eventually be fatal. But you said "first". So no. He will be a genius immediately, and if the gets a disease, it will take months or years to kill him, if at all. So for sure, genius first, disease second.

[@Rimma120]

Hi! I watched this movie on June and I like it!

[@graciefolden2359]

Please watch the 2014 film "Lucy" with Scarlett Johansson & Morgan Freeman. Lucy is more extreme than this film in the sci-fi genre 😊

[@letitiabeausoleil4025]

Hi Dasha.

[@TheOldKevin]

The TV series is pretty good as well.

[@rickyressel9263]

There’s a TV series that ties directly into this movie. If you enjoyed the film.

[@quixote6942]

Every Addict starts out by thinking "I'll try it once, then stop, No Big Deal". Why not Study Advanced Pharmacology, get all the notes from the people that made it and make it by yourself, along with ways to make it safer and reduce the after effects.

[@adamkhan7736]

Nice reaction. Good movie which i''ve seen a few times. Life's a challenge with or without the pill. When the emotion of excessive greed kicks in people start thinking with their emotions rather than strategically and therefore make mistakes. I know this through personal experience.

[@blakewalker84120]

3:10 "Would you try a pill to access 100% of your brain?" Nope. I already access 100% of my brain. Everybody does. This movie's premise that humans only use 20% of their brain is false. Just a myth. Even Wikipedia is correct on this one - maybe the movie's writers should have googled their premise. But if I expand your question to mean "Would I take a pill that makes me become amazingly more intelligent than I am?" Yes. Even experimentally. But not from a random dealer on a street corner - I would need to get it from a person a trust a lot and probably do everything I could to research the truth. I don't mess with my brain chemistry casually.

[@sean-ew2qv]

Dude, this is a Wendy's.

[@blakewalker84120]

@@sean-ew2qv Then go fetch me a baconator, large fries, and a Coke Zero.

[@somthingbrutal]

the TV spin off is worth watching

[@Trifler500]

I think I would try it if it was all official and everything, but not if some guy I don't know or barely know casually offered me one.

[@ChazmaniadevilBrinley]

It kinda reminds me of the movie Lucy so far

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

My very first thoughtb about what I would do, when I watched this movie the first time was to, after I earned a decent amount of money, would be to devote all my resources into pharmaceutical research and development to copy the formula.

[@starlord3496]

Merry Christmas beautiful lady #LetsGo

[@mikesilva3868]

Great review 😊😊😊

[@nixxol]

Dasha 🍒

[@innercircle341]

Happy Christmas 🎅🎅🎅❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@daver18qc]

Underrated movie, i love it!

[@Trouba315]

If somebody has 4 digit IQ he doesn't need to hire another chemist to discover how is NZT made, huh? Edie could very easily figure it out by himself. Particulary - when he was able to learn any language or play piano in 3 days :-) Yes I know, it would be not so thrilling movie :-)

[@ronnierodriguez6247]

There's a TV show of the his movie

[@elizandropedraza1286]

Great movie girl and hell yeah I would take that f**king pill and who wouldn't .😂🍿👍

[@matttorrence2900]

Dasha

[@TenTonNuke]

This is one of the rare occasions when the TV series spinoff is actually better than the movie.

[@jbwade5676]

❤❤❤❤

[@Luciphell]

Decent movie. I love the A-plot, but the B-plot really drags it down for me.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

And which is the B-plot?

[@Luciphell]

@@bigdream_dreambig I consider Edward and everything he does while on NZT to be the A-plot. Everything with Deniro and the businesses, as well as the other people who know about NZT and are trying to get their hands on it. Great stuff! The problem for me is the B-plot, the Russian mobster plot-line goes on for far too long and drags the entire story down into street level bullshit and keeps it there till the end of the film. This movie and especially the show had so much potential that it completely wasted.

[@sweiland75]

Humans do use 100% of their brains. Most of us anyways. LOL

[@do0ranfrump260]

This is one of my favorite movies. They did a tv show based on this movie which I also liked. It only had one season.

[@matthewwilson8429]

Love your reaction

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

Hell ya dasha, merry christmas

[@mistero1513]

Why alle the subtitles are italian?

[@michaelriddick7116]

Fantastic movie!!! I wish the TV show had gone one a little longer! :( LETS GOOOO!! 👍😎👍

[@michaelriddick7116]

And yes. I would. Without hesitation. 😊

[@Buzza235]

I reckon om using about 2.3% of my brain.

[@Jdawg319]

Every time lol I would take it

[@scorpio896]

I don't know if anyone can help me but, I am trying to make recommendations but with not avail, how do I share certain recommendations to Dasha?

[@scorpio896]

BTW she does not replyto Patreons, I am one!

[@TL-kr6se]

Scarlett Johansson, watch her movie "Lucy" for more brain stuff..

[@EdwardVonKhil]

At least this one is not as bad as "Lucy".

[@richardheinz]

8:25. I know a Russian Necktie is when they slice your throat and pull your tongue through it. Lol!

[@iCortex1]

Sweet, I liked this movie a lot - it's nothing groundbreaking but there's some really cool editing in there and the concept is fun and chill

[@Cenforge]

Bravo.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Watch life of pi

[@bradleyschwartz3935]

i am so jealous that you are able to roll your "r"s

[@CandC68]

Next movie LUCY

[@Ati-MarcusS]

i´m so tired from my brain aktions every day ,no pills involved ... :(

[@3dbadboy1]

If you're concerned about taking the pills, how about dating a man who takes the pill. Maybe that would be a better scenario :)

[@blakewalker84120]

15:18 "He probably knows Jiu Jitsu and Taekwondo and Mai Tai." LOL. I only mention this because what you said is really funny. Not funny like I am laughing at you, but funny like a joke a comedian might say on stage. Maybe it's the accent, but two of those are martial arts and one is a delicious alcoholic beverage. It's like you said Jiu Jitsu, Taekwondo, and Pina Colada. (but that wouldn't be a funny joke). The third martial art you're looking for is Muay Thai, from southeast Asia, pronounced MOO ee Tie (MOO like "move" without the v, ee like the first syllable of "easy", tie like when you tie your shoes. However, now that I know you know that, I hope you keep saying Mai Tai because that's a good joke.

[@libr1711]

If you like bradley try "silver lining playbook"

[@Paisa231]

You gotta watch Lucy, quite soon. Then you have a nice ce comparison 😉

[@damianstarks3338]

You are reading my at 25:26