I was pretty disappointed with this movie. With such an outstanding cast they could have done much more, but it continually falls short.
I could see the humor in this movie; I know what they were trying for, but it never hit home with me. It has it's moments; chuckles here a...( read more)
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.
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December 17, 2009
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December 12, 2009
What a fantastic movie. It's smart, funny, original and very entertaining. A sharp and exhilerating 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 performend film with an A-Gr...( read more)
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December 4, 2009
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The idea of psychic soldier sounds incredibly fascinating despite its ridiculousness. But in The Men Who Stare at Goats that ludicrous premise (or promise) is a thing of urban legend-cum-real-life-events. The clandestine program to program certain clairvoyance-gifted youn...( read more) -
December 2, 2009
A journalist accompanies an agent working for a secret, experimental psychic warfare Army unit (the Jedi Knights of the New Earth Army) on a mission deep into the Iraqi desert. Gets points for originality, but needed a lot more belly-laughs and a more satisfying conclusion. The ...( read more)
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November 22, 2009
This is one of the movies that audiences and critics disagree majorly upon. For me, it was just a waste of talent. If there was something I was "supposed" to get, I didn't. When you have McGregor, Clooney, Spacey and Bridges in one movie, you expect it to blow you away. Instead I...( read more)
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December 25, 2009
love this movie, especially if you know any new age stuff you will laugh you ass off
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December 21, 2009
Clever movie, but it leaves you with a feeling that they forced a movie out of a short story. All the big name actors did themselves proud with their work in this one, but sometimes even that is not enough.
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December 20, 2009
Pretty much a starwars spoof that has a predictable ending. Yet I loved every minute of it
Critic Reviews
The film starts hopefully, drifts into the desert, ends up starved of point, pith and pattern. full review
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
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
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
It's hard to resist a satire, even when it wobbles, that insists the most unbelievable parts are the most true. full review
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
It's smugness -- unleavened by wit -- that makes Goats so offensive. full review
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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