The Men Who Stare at Goats

Some movies are just too goofy for their own good. The Men Who Stare at Goats took a ridiculous idea and went absolutely nowhere with it yet. Still casting can clean up many mistakes and a wacked out George Clooney was well worth the price of admission.

I sure hope the United States military has been trying to harness the awesome power of the mind, because I want to live to see the day where Charles Xavier walks or wheels among us. But outside of the idea that the government used hippies to train telepathy to soldiers, I don't know the point of the movie. Clooney was seeking out something and confronted Spacey but at the end why did any of this happened?

It is always nice to see crazy comedic George Clooney. There was a beautiful seriousness to his insanity here. He believed every thing he was saying and doing. His performance was enhanced by Ewan McGregor's straight man. The 2 of them had that easy chemistry that made everything Clooney was doing seem more insane. Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey filled out the main cast but they were more stereotypical than Clooney and McGregor. Bridges was the hippie and Spacey was the villain. They were fine but this was Clooney's movie.

The Men Who Stare at Goats may have been better if it had a tighter plot but in the end it was money well spent. This may not go down as one of George Clooney greatest roles but he still carried this movie from passable to a damn good time.

8 out of 10