My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009

Action / Drama / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 41 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 11698 11.7K

detective surrealism flashback murder crime scene hostage situation

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Plot summary

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

Director

Werner Herzog Photo
Werner Herzog

Top cast

Willem Dafoe Photo
Willem Dafoe as Detective Havenhurst
Dave Bautista Photo
Dave Bautista as Officer, San Diego Police Department S.W.A.T Team
Michael Peña Photo
Michael Peña as Detective Vargas
Michael Shannon Photo
Michael Shannon as Brad Macallam
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
837.45 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 5
1.68 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

A different take on a hostage situation, with

A different take on a hostage situation, with the flashbacks just making Brad (Shannon) look even crazier. No real rhyme or reason to anything in the film, with it seeming to be weird for the sake of Herzog's whims - staring into the camera, frozen, for 30sec at a time, a score that doesn't fit, flamingos and ostriches... Also a waste of Dafoe's talents - felt long @ 87min.
Reviewed by Jelisije J 1 / 10

If you want to watch the journey of

If you want to watch the journey of a mentally challenged individual and his fall from grace then this film is for you.
Reviewed by Ken B 8 / 10

Did everyone completely really miss the main thrust

Did everyone completely really miss the main thrust of this film? The terrible generational curse of the House of Atreus portrayed in the Greek tragedy of the Oresteia trilogy! They only rehearse portions of it over and over and over for us... Mix that with his Peruvian experience, what ever it was, and his bible visions. Yes, it does't quite match the horror of the Greek matricide of the original, but don't criticize if you're not going to at least consider those many references to the Greek tragedy. Perhaps a more powerful evocation of the impact of Greek tragedy to a modern audience is "A Dream of Passion" with Ellen Burstyn and Melina Mercouri. In Athens, an American woman (Burstyn) murders her 3 children because her husband is having an affair. A Greek actress (Mercouri) is producing Euripides' "Medea" (who murders her children) for the BBC. The plot is involved, but the film ends with a scene of the play's production at the ancient theater at the site of the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Acted entirely in Greek, the viewer nonetheless experiences some of the horror the original Greek audience would have.
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