George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges
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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a film as silly as its title, clooney was fantastic and the script was witty and clever through most of the film, but in the end it still fell a bit flat. not that i expected it too, but the story didnt actually amount to much. good for a solid laugh but not quite as clever as ...( read more)
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)
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)
There is a secret new age army who uses paranormal abilities to defeat the enemy instead of weapons. Bob (Ewan) is a reporter who follows Lyn (George) to write a story about the new army. Kevin Spacey plays the bad guy and Jeff Bridges a hippie / army leader. It is very funny esp...( read more)
With the wacky concept of the US using top secret psychic forces, this movie should of had more outlandish, crazy scenes. It had some crazy stuff but there definitely needed to be more. It went for a Coen Brothers-esque style of comedy but didn't quite get there, there are some...( read more)
Definitely the most disappointing film of the year - a light souffle without the souffle!
A good idea. Did not get delivered well enough. But it has its moments and George Clooney is fabulous as usual, and that saves the movie from being a total waste of time.
Too many big stars kind of over whelmed the film and it didn't quite hang together as a journey. You weren't sure where you were supposed to be going or why, much like the lead character. It was funny, but not as funny as I expected. The Jedi thing was so self referential it thre...( read more)
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
I 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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