Limbo Review
For his first film for a major studio in years, John_Sayles chose a project uncompromising even by his own restrictive standards, although this might not appear to be the case at first. In its first half, Limbo, like Sayles' Lone_Star and City of Hope, establishes with almost novelistic detail the details of a community, in this instance a small fishing town in Alaska. It's all the more shocking, then, when the film abandons its carefully established milieu for life on a desert island, but Sayles and his able cast make the shift work, the contrast between relationships in a community and relationships in isolation ultimately becoming part of the point of the film. Though it left critics divided in part due to a strange (but perfect) conclusion, this is every bit up to the level of Sayles' past work, even if part of its power comes from working against the expectations raised by his past. Keith Phipps, Rovi
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