As I said, I liked this movie, sort of, except for the not-too-suprisingly controversial ending. Some people really liked it, but come on folks--the ending was truly cheesy--a cheap trick that even a pulp-fiction hack of a writer would have been embarassed to employ, especially since it comes from veteran movie maker John Sayles.
I'm not going to speculate on how the ending came to be, except that maybe Sayles couldn't decide whether the Kristopherson character would bring back help or the bad guys, and decided on just letting it hang instead. Maybe when you get to be an influential director like Sayles you can pull gaffs like these and people just think you're being profound.
Well, the Limbo title appropriately describes not only the ending and the lurch in which Sayles leaves the audience, but also the aesthetic limbo Sayles himself needs to un-mire himself from.
Other than that, it's an okay flick, despite the almost but not quite fatal flaw of the ending.
