Review – Into the Abyss

Werner Herzog could make a movie out of Sesame Street and still have it turn out to be a talky discourse on the dark pits of existential despair. So with a title like “Into the Abyss,” this was bound to be grim stuff. Herzog tells the tale of a couple of dipshits in Texas who murdered three people just so they could steal a car. Oddly, nobody comes off looking good, neither the killers nor their families nor the victims’ families. For a guy who claims to oppose the death penalty, Herzog sure doesn’t make much of a case for anybody here continuing to abuse the planet’s air supply. See if desperate