johnnydeezelle I saw this film in the theater. There were about five people in the audience. I really, really hated this movie and thought it was incredibly boring and awful. It's not even the ambiguous ending that bothers me. It's the ridiculously slow pacing and lack of plot development until the last part of the movie that bothered me. It's like it was deliberately made to be a dull test of the viewer's patience."I thought it was an excellent character study. Of course, I also like a variety of slow-paced European films."Well excuuuuuuuuse me, Mr. Worldly. But I have to ask: How does one study a character when nothing happens in the plot for 3/4 of the movie? "Limbo" was like "Elephant" in that it presented its characters in their boring and droll carbon-copy day-to-day lives. The majority of their screen time didn't really tell us anything about them as characters before deciding in the last part of the film to introduce un-ordinary situations where we would actually get to see how the characters behave outside of their everyday routine. I mean, that's cool and all, but if I wanted to see monotonous everyday existence, I would just wake up tomorrow. Why wait until there are just a few minutes left of the film to finally have anything happen that truly shows who the characters really are beneath their ordinary facades?"Limbo" is not a movie to be enjoyed. It's a movie that's deliberately shi++y so that artsy-fartsy people can pretend to like it because it subverts the viewer's expectations by failing to be a movie at all. You can pretend to like to it all you want, but we all know that if you deconstruct this film, there's nothing there. You're only pretending to like it because you want to be an above-the-common-rabble contrarian. Well I see right through your guise, Mr. Hipster, and I don't buy it for a second.F -"Limbo" is among the worst movies ever made.

Parker Lewis I first saw David Strathairn in Sneakers, and he's an impressive actor, and he was excellent in Limbo. I remember seeing a review blurb saying the ending was one of the most shocking ever, and I thought, I have to see Limbo.If you're into fast and furious cars, expendables, etc, then please move aside please. Please get out of your cinema seat. Limbo requires lots of thought and is nuanced.The ending is haunting, and to this day I still think about it, wondering what happened to the three characters. Did they survive? Are they know living together as a family unit?

narubio i am shocked that the average star rating for this movie is 7! this movie tops my list of the worst movies ever made, which by the way only consists of 3. i do have lists of ridiculous and total wastes of time; but this movie tops them all.i tell people, you don't have to watch it, just read the title, look it up in the dictionary. i was shocked at the ending, but then again, i really wasn't... meaning, Really?, did i just waste my time watching that when i could have just skimmed the synopsis and read the title about a thousand times. i saw this in the theater, really wanted to walk out, but out of respect for the person who took me, i unfortunately stayed.i was appalled then, and i am appalled now to see how many people actually liked this film. i don't know what else to say...

zee I do get so weary of watching typical Hollywood films made for 14 year old kids, and so a film like this is sweet relief from that. Nothing about character or plot is simple, here. The ending is ambiguous, but then, so is real life, and somehow we manage to cope with that.Like others here, I must recommend the DVD commentary. I felt as if I were spending a weekend at a top film school, listening to Sayles discuss the various techniques, lighting, lenses, and so forth, that we laypeople seldom think about.As much as I like his movies, his short stories are even better. If you haven't treated yourself to reading them, please do.