Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Zadok Allen ...since most people don't. To me it seems like a true piece of art: not necessarily headed anywhere, offering infinite ways of seeing it. You might say it is the story of a killer who follows clues and talks to people until finally facing off against the bad guy. Seen this way you might say the basic plot is like a James Bond. Then again it is so barren and those "clues" are so utterly random and counter-intuitive that it is more like the exact opposite of a Bond. A naked woman and he just doesn't want to sleep with her? That might be "professional" or possibly even "realistic" for a killer - Bond would never ever (not) do that. From this perspective this "Bond" is completely deconstructed, thus commenting on the nature of movies as well as art in general. No one I talked to saw any similarity to a Bond movie. However: the "clues" in a common James Bond'ish movie usually do not make any sense either. We can easily follow a story where the agent suddenly flies to Miami because a guy we never heard about supposedly lives there. Now we heard that our protagonist needs that unknown guy to decode the transponder code for the sub-nuclear particle reverser - the super weapon. Nonsense like that is commonplace in movies. Protagonists just use keywords to travel from here to there. This movie however insists on pointing that out. "Caution: this plot is based on keywords that do not make any sense in the slightest". Well not THAT literally - almost though. Although the "keyword plot" is so common it usually goes with an illusion of logical coherence, continuity and sense. This illusion is rejected in this case. What you got are the bare bones of a common movie along with a lot of commenting on art, how it is made and how communication works. Unfortunately most people do not feel like the movie communicates anything. It rather feels like this one takes them for fools - which is why it is unpopular. Maybe it went too far. It's almost as rejecting as Kubricks 2001. However: it does NOT feature a 3 minute black screen intermezzo. 10 out of 10 from me.

gamay9 Some reviewers have commented that the film moves too slowly. Assassinations usually do. I watched the film on DVD, on a 50" plasma HD screen, so the cinematography was good, but, talk about slow. At the 15th of 18 scenes, the DVD reverted back to #1 and I thought the film was intentionally deja vu until I noticed that every aspect was identical. That definitely intensified the slow pace. I moved to another DVD and finished watching the film.I only rented the movie because Paz De La Huerta did a Playboy spread and the commentary referred to her being nude in every scene. Unfortunately, she wasn't in many scenes and her most fascinating feature (her profile) wasn't the focal point of the shoot. When directors want to show nudity at its' best, the actress should be moving about so the viewer gets every imaginable angle.The ending wasn't climactic and caused me to wonder what made the matchbox trading so important to the script.

Chris Lewis This movies is nothing short of brilliant. Not because less than 200 words that are said, but mostly because the mind allows you to create what is happening. This allows for a multi-verse of options for what's really going on. Not a single character has a name either. The message I believe in this movie is more about imagination (clearly stated in the movie) and leaves the watcher hooked. I found this movie flipping through HBO and it took nothing short of "no words" to hook me. I instantly restarted the film and was amazed at the concept in which was defined here. I will say it lacked some detail, but I think that's what the write/director had in mind. It's noted on a couple of occasions to "use your imagination" Genius idea and creative simplicity. Oh and I watched it twice. The 2nd time it seem to make more sense. . . at least in my own mind.

Matt Kracht The Limits of Control is a surreal, minimalistic movie that subverts everything that's supposed to happen in a thriller. I can totally understand why people would dislike this movie. If you went in expecting a traditional thriller, then it's certainly going to be a disappointment. I'm sure some people will find it pointless and too self-conscious, but this is a pretty common complaint about Jarmusch's work. For some people, his movies work, and, for others, they don't.If you like Jarmusch's slower, more surreal movies, then I'd suggest you give this a chance. It's not my favorite Jarmusch movie, and I think that some of it went over my head, but I liked it quite a lot. The pacing was almost as dream-like as the cinematography. Everything came together beautifully, even if not all of it made sense the first time through. This is one of the reasons why I love the IMDb, however. I love reading everyone's interpretation of movies like this. If you like discussing movies, rather than simply watching them, this will give you a lot to talk about.