Control

Singular in its location and singular in mood.

A movie made with the kind of vision and assurance you don’t often get in a debut.

Kontroll is the first work by a director who is clearly gifted and who has found a way to make a full-bore action movie on a limited budget.

Kontroll is that singular success, a thoroughly satisfying, rambunctious entertainment that also subtly works on philosophical and spiritual levels.

These pieces come together, but they don’t always fit.

Like Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe, Kontroll is another "chill out" production that’s alternately lovely and sini...