Movie Review: "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done"

Movie of the Day: " My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done” staring William Devoe & Micheal Shannon. Psychologically messed up killer starts off with the killing of his mother , we know who did it now we go thru next 90 minutes for the why he is the way he is.
Length: 1:.31:53

Date of Review: 09-23-2010

Rating : 5.50 (has components of a good script that somehow never gets there on the screen).

Review: Some days you come across mixed emotions, this one started with some interesting positions ( police arrive at murder scene to a nutty looking guy , with his coffee cup, in the crowd of the front of the house of a murder scene by where a women has been stabbed by a sword, and his razzle dazzle statement to the detective as he enters the house. Are nutty murderers always so obviously different looking and acting???

I was almost saying the police should always observe next 30 minutes after a homicide at every person in the crowd because the killer always returns (does that really happen in real life….you stick around to see if nobody notices you. I don´t honestly know but he was the weirdest looking guy in the crowd and right from the start he lives next door , returns to feed his Pink Flamingos and goes into his house.

After a half hour the detectives realize the killer is across the street and as the police enter the driveway he screams out he has 2 hostages and over the next 45 minutes the SWAT is finally called in to negotiate ( and the main body of the storyline is about a crazy mentally displaced man played by Micheal Shannon played quite well at being really out there talking to and seeing God to his mother living with him at like 35 yrs old to her very crazy like things the mother does as others are recalling the events to detectives over last few days.

You really understand why people sometimes go crazy. Like mother like son!!! Some could have been good stuff that just didn’t seem to do it and ultimately was a sleeper for me. Again I rank it low because it just didn’t get creative enough to make this any more than a basic “play type” role work for the characters. I thought at some points of a stage play which the character is actually in a “stage play” in the movie, but also some parts felt like a Alfred Hitchcock movie or was that just William Devoe playing great role as usual.

Even Devoe could not save this one in my humble opinion, don´t expect too much unless you’re a extreme intellect watching another crazy person telling his story and there is a lot of deeper stuff but overall OK movie for your DVD dollar...for the majority but definitely I can see it also as a good film theatrically speaking for the fans of director Werner Herzog (also doing the screenplay) and producer David Lynch if your into their obviously somewhat weird and bizarre side of Hollywood.

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