Jim Jarmsuch has been responsible for many of the dullest hours ever spent at the movies. His new The Limits of Control is no different.

Very stylish, fun and Isach De Bankolé has one of those great "film faces". Absurdist in tone and full of references to other films (many of which i surely missed). Chris Doyle's cinematography is great, as is to be expected.

Never have a movie been so beautifully shot and had so horrendous dialogue. A shame.

I haver never in my life been so bored. Jarmusch tries to be self-referential in a funny way and fails miserably! even Gael couldn't save this movie....I really hated it.

I guess I'll try using my "imagination" next time I try to break into a heavily-guarded compound.

De Bankolé has a really interesting face, de la Huerta looks good naked, but the dialogues and plot are too calculatedly nonsensical to be tolerable.

one of the most gorgeous films i have seen.. with one of the worst storylines ever. what a shame. badass drone soundtrack though.

This wasn't interesting at all. Nice camera work which is all the praise I can give it. Incredibly boring. Such a wanky film in all aspects. Philosophical my balls.

"Folly of the most pretentious order, The Limits of Control is a meaningless stylistic immersion from the typically on-point and perceptive Jim Jarmusch." - Ed Gonzalez

A highly structured, repetitive flow of a film. Jarmusch draws it out, matching the pacing perfectly to the Boris score , enough that the later flamenco feels out of place. The cameos (except de la Huerta's) don't quite gel with this rhythm, but it suits the more solitary sections. The real power here lies in the image, Bankolé's statuesque, color shifting form against the graceful curvatures through the frame. In many ways it nearly seems to be more Christopher Doyle's movie than Jarmusch's.

This is such a slick looking film

I've read that this is supposed to be "an action movie with no action", a zen koan, or a Rivette-style puzzle. All of those are apt descriptions. So is "boring as fuck". The meditative quality that the film strives for is not present. Just because nothing happens doesn't make it meditative. Jarmusch is merely making a stylistic choice, an empty gesture. The film references LADY OF SHANGHAI, STALKER and LA VIE DE BOHEME. Go see any of those, they're all far better than this navel-gazing nonsense.

maybe my new favorite jarmusch movie, fuck the haters

I usually like Jim Jarmusch's work but I was disappointed in this film. I could forgive the movie for being slow if there was a better payoff at the end. A good cast is wasted in this film.

Jarmusch favourite Isaach Bankoulé as a hitman traveling through Spain, running into cryptic contacts who give him hints on where to go next, all of which basically add up to "make it up as you go along". Everyone makes sure he doesn't speak Spanish, then offers him vital clues (not to the plot, but to the reading of it) in untranslated Spanish. Every single shot here could be put in a museum, and your typical slow-moving Jarmusch story which is more about impressions and ideas than actual plot.

In this "modes of transport and several languages with bad accents" movie you can find everything that makes Jarmusch movies interesting, great cinematography, great score and interesting moments. But the flaws of Jarmusch movies are more abundant in this one compared to others , thus it is not my favourite. It came together nicely towards the end, but that still depends on far-fetched interpretation. Besides, the main guy should have eaten that last map too, for the sake of consistency.

Paz de la Huerta hatrina.

It's only pretentious if you don't get it! Stop using that word to describe films that are simply difficult! Think first about this man's ritual existence, his fierce adherence to rigidity, and his thundering silence in the face of art and beauty. Then think for a few minutes about what purpose that might serve in a film such as this. What is Jarmusch attempting to convey? I swear to you it's not all pointless.

The dialogue, while sometimes annoyingly repetitive, still has a certain charm to it. It looks great. The characters are interesting, for what little they do. It's pretty good.

Tomei contacto com este filme principalmente por causa da banda sonora (Boris, Earth, Sunn 0))), entre outros). O filme é interessante, passado em Espanha. Tem o seu próprio ritmo (lento) e é muito críptico em termos de argumento, deixando muita da interpretação da sua história ao espectador. Isaac de Bankolé, que apenas conhecia da minha série preferida 24, dá corpo a um homem sem nome, em que salvo erro, aparece em todas as cenas do filme, embora com pouquíssimas falas. Gostei.

slow, repetitious, minimalistic..... yet strangely intriguing. too bad the ending failed to deliver a much needed crescendo.

"La vida no vale nada."

I don't even know why and how it works. Maybe it's the espresso or his immaculate suits.

Highly experimentally. This film leaves most of the story to the viewers imagination. In the beginning its intruiging, but after a while this film just bored me.

would have been so so great without letting the actors actresses speak the whole film through. but they do. and it's horribly written. nothing but silly, brutally forced "let me just explain the world/universe/life"-monologs. but, as said, the rest is fantastic. jarmusch in colour is a pleasure.