Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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.

merklekranz The first half of "Limbo" has strong character development. Unfortunately only a small number of those characters have any bearing on the remainder of the film. For example, the culture clash between the Alaskans and the tourist industry, was totally gratuitous. There is also an inordinate amount of small talk that leads nowhere. All of this could be forgiven, if once the story kicks into gear, with the mother, daughter, and David Strathairn stranded on a remote island, something happened. Unfortunately the second half in the wild, is tedious and boring. I recommend fast forwarding every time the daughter picks up the diary. All the fine acting, and beautiful scenery, cannot hide the fact that this movie is way too long for such slight material, and the conjectural ending is totally unacceptable. - MERK

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.

Lee Eisenberg A common question that people ask about movie directors is: which of his/her movies was your favorite? I wish to assert not only that John Sayles is probably the greatest American director alive today, but that "Limbo" was his best movie, tied with "Lone Star".The former tells the stories of several people in a small town in Alaska. We get to see a couple of stories: a corporate executive wants to log out a forest but leave a thin strip of trees so that no one can see it; the factory is closing down because the ocean is all fished out; and finally, Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn), Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Noelle De Angelo (Vanessa Martinez) are trapped in limbo.The best part was the ending. A lot of people thought that the ending made no sense, but I thought that it added to the movie's feeling of the world coming apart. You have to see it. 10/10.