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4 December 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Limits Of Control gives us a frustrating glimpse of the conspiracy-therory thriller that the cult director will never make

We expect the work of our favourite directors to develop and expand with each new movie, not deteriorate. An artist's career should ripen before us, not rot, as seems to be happening with Jim Jarmusch.

In his latest, The Limits Of Control, Jarmusch intimates the outlines of a widespread international conspiracy – a lone contract killer stalks his target across an arid Spain – by letting us see only fragments of it. But, frankly I'd rather see the pulse-pounding, cliche-ridden thriller he scorned trying to make. As with much of his increasingly mannered "mature" work, in Control, Jarmusch peppers a trite, transcendently unenlightening and uninvolving script with the usual distracting bits of business (here, the hitman, who spends much time receiving cryptic messages in matchboxes, needs his double espresso served in two separate cups … um, »

- John Patterson

1 article from 2009