Movie | The Limits of Control | Pass

What do you get if you take a movie script about a hitman and strip almost everything away that you possibly can? If this sounds interesting to you and you have an appreciation for color palettes and angles in movies, you'll enjoy this as much as I did. All others need not apply.

Like an Alex Cox movie cranked up to eleven, this Jim Jarmusch movie relishes Spanish culture, stylized dialogue and long, drawn out scenes. The movie even acknowledges this in the dialogue. Something like, "Don't you just love movies with scenes where two people are just sitting and talking?"

But, it's no wonder this movie alienated so many people. It's certainly not the next Transformers movie! Things aren't blowing up, nothing is handed to you on a platter. This is for sophisticated adult viewers that have an appreciation for quite the opposite. Sometimes you're in the mood for one and not the other, so make sure you're in the mood for this one.

Still brilliant and a thumb and a half up.