March 16, 2010
i liked it, but the ending was lacking thats what made it suffer
George Clooney,
Ewan McGregor,
Jeff Bridges,
Kevin Spacey,
Stephen Lang
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The story of a secret unit within the US Army called the First Earth Battalion, whose paranormal military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.
DVD Release Date: March 23, 2010
Stats: 8,164 reviews
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March 14, 2010This military satire claims that more aspects of it are true than you'd expect and maybe that's even the case, the story is still pretty crazy. While a reporter (McGregor) teams up with an undercover psychic soldier (Clooney) in Iraq, we learn about the history of the so called F...( read more)
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March 4, 2010What a fantastic movie. It's smart, funny, original and very entertaining. A sharp and exhilarating piece of comic greatness. It's a flat-out hilarious great time at the movies that you will love. A clever, well-written, sharply directed and very well performed film with an A-Gra...( read more)
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February 18, 2010If I spent any more than 90 minutes and the price of a blank DVD watching The Men Who Stare at Goats I'd have been seriously pissed off. Based in part off of true events, this movie recounts a division of the army that tried applying new age techniques to military training to cre...( read more)
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February 10, 2010"No goats. No glory."
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions....( read more) -
March 18, 2010One movie combine 6 male talents together, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Lang from Avatar, Robert Patrick the Terminator villain & three Oscar winners Kevin Spacey, George Clooney & Jeff Bridges.
Most of the scenes are men, i seldom see women in the movie. Therefore many of the jokes a...( read more) -
March 15, 2010Me lembrou "Burn After Reading" dos Coen, mas o filme é muito mais nonsense. Mesmo quando tenta ganhar alguma substância discursando sobre a guerra e suas consequências mais sócio-políticas, não perde a graça.
Todo o casting de atores é maravilhoso. George Clooney e Ewan McGregor...( read more) -
March 15, 2010a story with weird premise, but the US Army is weird anyway. Maybe somewhere within the US Army there is a unit of cuckoo people developing soldiers trained in psi-combat
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March 14, 2010Dire que c'est une histoire en partie vraie, des soldats américains spécialisé dans les pouvoirs psychiques...enfin, le but était d'en former afin que ce soit efficace. L'idée est farfelue mais ces mecs là sont prêts à tout pour gagner alors c'est plutôt logique finalement. Dans ...( read more)
Critic Reviews
November 9, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
November 6, 2009
Nigel Andrews, Financial Times
The film starts hopefully, drifts into the desert, ends up starved of point, pith and pattern. full review
November 5, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
There's no doubt we need more movies for grown-ups, with jokes that don't hit us over the head, but The Men Who Stare at Goats doesn't fit the bill. At best, it might hypnotize you into a stupor. full review
November 5, 2009
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The yarn unravels without ever identifying its satirical targets. Is it a lampoon of peace-and-love mysticism? A critique of militant war-for-profit privateers? Ultimately, it's a shapeless wad of goa... full review
November 5, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
This is the anti-Hurt Locker experience: Where that Iraq War film was absorbing and deadly serious, The Men Who Stare at Goats is irreverent and lighthearted. full review
November 5, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
It's hard to resist a satire, even when it wobbles, that insists the most unbelievable parts are the most true. full review
November 5, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It actually doesn't matter if the book is truthful. It doesn't claim the paranormal powers are real. Ronson simply says some officials thought they might be -- and that if they were, we had to get the... full review
November 4, 2009
Armond White, New York Press
It's smugness -- unleavened by wit -- that makes Goats so offensive. full review
November 2, 2009
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Clooney gives it everything, but what does he get in return? A void where the story is meant to be. full review
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December 2, 2009super awesome movie one of he biggest hit of all time .i have watched it alread you can watch it here http://tiny4.us/kde2ck
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November 18, 2008I just want to see this film to celebrate the triumph of all my friends for being part of this film. We were on the set of the film on Puerto Rico, were we live, and we did enjoy the time watching the explosives and the neiborghs getting inside the arabian sute to be killed and the destruction of the nicest cars on our island, Chevvrolets and Monteros..it was a waste, cause they could give those cars to us, hehe. And I want to see it too cause my friend Carlos is going to die on that scene of the gasoline arabian store.
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