Didn't get this movie, but enjoyed Paz completely naked. That ass deserve 10 stars!

Near the end of this film, the hitman sits in front of a blank canvas in an art gallery and stares at it. This is the experience you can expect from this movie. Stare as much as you like, you don't have much to go on. Your many questions will go unanswered. Don't waste your time.

Aimless and slow as can be.

Call me crazy, but I think I liked it. I won't recommend it or call it a good film. It is quite literally all style and no substance at all. But Jim Jarmusch's direction the film's cast and its cinematography let me enjoy it, even if I can't say very much in its favor.

The more I watch this one the more I'm drawn in to this dialogue light film of intrigue. From the lead, Isaach De Bankole, whose quiet strength hooks you into every movement he makes and every step he takes you on this journey. Surrounded by an incredible support cast Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal and the incredibly beautiful Paz de La Huerta , who they certainly didn't go broke on her wardrobe. Interesting film that you're not always sure what's going on but riveting nonetheless.

If you liked Broken Flowers then I would go out on a limb and say that you will like this... a central character strolls around interacting with other more or less random characters discussing more or less random things, and it looks good and it sounds good, and nothing much actually happens. Same goes for Paterson as far as I can remember. Not sure why this one gets down-rated so much, maybe there is the expectation that it is somehow an action movie (it isn't). An easy enjoyable watch.

Probably one of the worst wastes of space I have ever witnessed. It is plain hysterical how "critics " tried to find value in its boring!!!!! Sluggish minutes. Seriously, we watched it for a full 17 minutes, and kept saying.. "that's not John Hurt". Yes "do you like my ass.." was the best line. I will order cappuccino when I next visit Madrid in two separate cups..and will search for matches in the those little boxes.. but I will pass on the notes as an appetizer. I busted out laughing when he ate the third one.. it may have only two..

This is not a great movie, but it has a strong visual style. Unfortunately, one great moment stands out above all the others, and it's the moment that stood out in the trailer. Bill Murray swivels around at a desk in a big fancy study, and he jumps to see a stranger sitting on his couch silently. "How did you get in here?" he asks. The reply is just as cool as a cucumber: "I used my imagination."

Jarmusch has had one message (among others) for 30-some years: "Look." Movies can be more painting than plot and this one is an exemplar.

Paz de la Huerta as a completely stylish and submissive femme but not so fatale in "The Limits of Control" (2009): an underrated art film about a nameless assassin (Isaach de Bankole) who refuses to have sex and drinks two espressos in two separate cups every single day. This is a mediation on the beauty of loneliness.

You won’t know. It’s great

Very stylish and visual. The plot tickens, but youre not put through the vulcanic action, you predict will happen.

A narrative that lacks soul and emotion. What else is there?

A very minimalistic and abstract film. It is interesting to watch and I enjoyed it that you could follow what was going on without much, if any, exposition.

Thrilling in a pleasantly absurd way. Needs few words, beautiful surroundings, great main actor, guest actors, and, despite a conspiracy theme, retains a very simple and positive attitude without going into cheap dystopian or apocalyptic shock methods.

¿Usted no habla español, verdad?

Philip French, in The Guardian, suggested this was a love or loathe film. (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/13/limits-of-control-review) I can see his point, but in my case it's not true. I thought it was okay. Beautifully shot. I think the theme, story and imagery will remain with (some) viewers. It has a fairytale, folk story, fabulist or mythical, feel all the way through. The core of the film is at the end when Bill Murray's character spells out the theme: it is a film about values. I can see why people would be irritated by it though: Isaach De Bankolé's character never speaking to the people he meets is quite trying; but mostly the story, such as it is, fails to hold our interest - there's this enigmatic guy on some kind of quest, but we don't really care about him, the quest, or what happens next. I think that if you are not in the mood for something like this, the film could be profoundly irritating, and would feel v. pretentious. However, I did find that I thought about the theme after the movie, so in that sense it was successful.

This movie has no plot. The main character does not speak but a few lines, and does nothing but walk around, drink coffee, trade matchbooks with people who spew their random interests. Other than no story, it is also not interesting in any way whatsoever.

Jim Jarmusch is a weirdo off course, but he has been better than that in other movies, this one lacks tempo

The Limits of Control is a beautifully constructed film. It has a symphonic structure in which most of the dialogue occurring in the film is set out in a comically absurdest overture. As the stunning visual images progress, the themes laid out in the beginning are explored with variations, always with the recurring tag-line "You don't speak Spanish, right?" Music, film, science, language (the term bohemian), and hallucination are the motifs of this theme-and variation. A through-line is provided by the Nude Girl, who begins as strongly visual, fading through resonant images, but growing in the Lone Man's mind, and by paintings in the National Library. The motifs are recapitulated by Bill Murry before he is strangled; the final image is the Lone Man sitting in front of a sheet-covered painting, evoking the sheet-covered body of the dead Nude Girl. All images and themes criss-cross, and tie up at the end. Beautiful.