Critic Reviews

As far as documentaries go, it's an odd mix between a National Geographic travel film and one man's journey toward improving his fitness. Nonetheless, it is cohesive and engaging.

Limitless With Chris Hemsworth puts the star in some extreme situations, but the insights into his life and thinking are what’s going to keep us watching.

Chris Hemsworth is personally engaging and does seem genuinely engaged as he undertakes a new round of mental and physical challenges in Limitless: Live Better Now.

It’s better about presenting Hemsworth as an example, not the exemplar, of what functional fitness can look like. He’s still testing his limits by doing things only a wealthy, famous actor can do, like flirting with reputational disaster by performing with a pop star. But he takes on these massive dares under the guidance of accredited authorities.

Hemsworth is a genial and disarming presence who has also for more than a decade been locked into the ultimate movie-star finishing school. He’s good at this sort of thing, all while keeping the reality of his life safely out of view. What seem to be major revelations — as when he declares “Living my longest, healthiest, happiest, life, that’s going to be the work of a lifetime” — come to seem less than meets the eye after a moment’s consideration.

[Chris Hemsworth is] a warmly personable presence, even if he doesn’t much endanger the truism that actors are best when they are given a script to follow.