My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
2009
**
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie, Loretta Devine, Irma P. Hall, Michael Peña, Brad Dourif
A grown man kills his mother and barricades himself in her San Diego home with two hostages. The detectives on the scene interview the man's fiancée and the director of his amateur theatre group to understand who they are dealing with. With Werner Herzog directing and David Lynch producing, the end result is not going to be The Negotiator. Real-life events inspired this story, but the world Herzog depicts is predictably out of kilter. His psychological drama starts in a darkly comic fashion, but gets boring very quickly thanks to extremely mechanical flashbacks which only serve to illustrate that the protagonist never played with a full deck.
