Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Python Hyena The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009: Dir: Grant Heslov / Cast: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Stephen Lang: Here is a comedy that combines both sincerity and among the biggest laughs all year. Ewan McGregor plays Bob Wilton whose life is on a downward spiral until he encounters a believed super soldier named Lynn Cassidy, played by George Clooney. What is interesting here is how full of crap Cassidy is yet our willingness to go along because Cassidy believes it so well. These super soldiers have a psychic ability that allows them to move objects by force of the mind. Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django who nearly died in Vietnan until he found refuge in a strange vision. Kevin Spacey plays Larry Hooper who attempts to sabotage the operation because he desires to control it for himself. Directed by Grant Heslov who creates one of the funniest as well as best films of the year. McGregor allows us to believe the nonsense because he can stare through a wall for that awesome triumphant conclusion. Clooney sharpens his comic edge with a wink. Bridges steals moments in his hippy madness. Spacey even makes for a villain we cannot help but like even when he pulls a gun on himself. Stephen Lang opens up the film with a hilarious sequence where he believes that he can transport through walls. Intelligent comedy about secret government exploitations. Score: 10 / 10

Mike B That movie is quite amusing if you know the facts around it being true...It making a mocky of the U.S. Army's extensive history of actually investigating paranormal methods for combat. When it comes to 'murica they will do anything with the tax payers money for improving their warfare.There was a guy named Nick Rowe, a Special Forces operator who spent 62 months imprisoned in a Vietnamese POW camp. I believe it was him to leaked the details of what he believed to be mind controlling goats which he witnessed there. That lead US into extreme researching of the topic.The 'fainting' goat itself is extremely funny which the US government actually researched on as being actually paranormal.Makes sense seeing a certain type of goat dropping dead by human interaction could be easily confused as something more. However, they where very certain it was paranormal power and therefore wanted it for themselves and apply it to actual people! The US government just believed it was due to people actually staring at the goat for long periods of time at them, focusing paranoid brain activity towards them, which made their heart stop. Really it was just anything that spooked them. Due to an congenital (present from birth) medical condition known as myotonia congenita or Thomsen's disease, certain goat's muscles tense up when the animal is startled and don't immediately relax. Younger ones are more affected and it can even stop their heart for a moment - which can label them as pronouced dead, then revived moments later.

l_rawjalaurence THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS has an intriguing premise - that there exist a group of men within the US Army who succeed in persuading their opponents to down their weapons through auto-suggestion, or better still, sheer power of will. The group is led by Jeff Bridges, who adopts a New Age approach to training them; Kevin Spacey is his rival, who ultimately supersedes him. The two central characters, played by Ewan McGregor and George Clooney, are like chalk and cheese: McGregor becomes unwittingly involved in the group's activities, although ostensibly seeking to enliven his otherwise humdrum existence; Clooney is almost entirely wedded to Bridges' philosophy, although we never quite know whether he possesses superhuman (or should it be super- psychological) powers or not. The film is certainly interesting in terms of subject-matter, and the distinguished cast perform their roles competently; but in terms of tone, we never know whether it is intended to be comic, satiric or tragic. Moreover there are certain elements - especially when the group interact with the locals - that have a distinctly orientalist tone; once again the non-European actors are treated as secondary, both in terms or roles and in terms of culture. But the film is nonetheless well worth watching

FilmBuff1994 The Men Who Stare at Goats is a great movie with a really well developed and extremely unique and unusual storyline and a fantastic cast that all play characters that are different to what you would usually see them in.The best performance has to be George Clooney's, I'm seen him in several comedies but thus is the first time that I genuinely found him to be the funniest character in the movie,Ewan McGregor,Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey also deliver great performances. Fans of both war and comedy movies should definitely check out the Men Who Stare at Goats.A journalist may have found the story of a lifetime when he meets a man who was part of the US Army who claims he has been professionally trained to gain super powers.