If You Could Move Your Brain : A Review of Self/less

Since I have recently reviewed Limitless and kind of liked it, I saw this movie being advertised with some similarities and decided to see what the differences were.   Self/less is about a wealthy man who is dying of cancer.  He finds some questionable science people who assure him he can take the form of a younger man with his same brain by agreeing to undergo a special procedure.   So he does - and there is where the story gets interesting.  At first he likes being young again after his old body has been buried and his brain is alive and well inside the newer younger body,  but then as he starts to learn more - he realizes that this isn't as great of a deal as he originally thought.  He has to take anti-rejection pills constantly or weird things seeem to happen, and some of the people in his life begin to act very suspiciously when he gets curious.  Here is how this movie and Limitless are similar :

1. Both have a charismatic young man as the main character of the story

2. Both involve an older man (in Limitless it is Robert De Niro and in Self/less it is Ben Kingsley) who is interested in the miracle technology.

3.  Both are science fiction.

4. OK this last one is lame - but both have the less in the title.

After that they are not that similar AT ALL.

Which one did I like better?  Well Self/less had a better ending that didn't raise a ton of questions, and I found the plot twists and turns in Self/less better overall than the ones in Limitless.  Both held my interest very well,  but Self/less showed the value of character above power in a more convincing way than the movie Limitless.  There were definite weird moments, but overall I think the Self/less plot and storyline was better.   If you like interesting, thought-provoking science fiction, you should try watching Self/less.  It definitely gave Chrystal and I a lot to talk about.