The Men Who Stare at Goats

Movie Title-- The Men Who Stare at Goats

Release Year-- 2009

Running Time-- 1 Hour and 34 Minutes

Film Company-- BBC Films

Director-- Grant Heslov

Cast--George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang Journalist


Bob Wilton, in search of a way to impress his wife so that she would come back to him, stumbles upon a wild story about the military doing research on "psychic spies" for use in the military. Bob goes to Kuwait, trying to gain entry into Iraq where he meets Lyn Cassady, a member of the military that was part of the "psychic spy" research. After meeting Lyn, Bob joins Lyn on a mission into the dessert where he learns more about the ways of the "psychic spies" and discovers his own personal life lessons. Let me first say that I was surprised by this movie. I wanted to see it because I like the actors in the movie but I was sure I wasn't going to like it, however, I was very wrong. This movie was super funny and one I would recommend to anyone. The acting was very good and some things happen in the movie that I couldn't help but laugh at.


Ewan McGregor's American accent was done very well (because we all know that sometimes when actors that aren't native to the country of the character try to do the accent for, it sometimes gets lost in translation). George Clooney was the one to watch in this movie though. Just listening to the stories he had to tell about the training he went through as a "psychic spy" (also called a "remote viewer" in the movie by the members that underwent the training) was funny, that doesn't include the things he did to get him and Bob out of trouble a few times, furthering the whole "psychic spy" theory.


On another note, there was one "Lord of the Rings" and several "Star Wars" references. The name of the program the "psychic spies" were in was called "Project Jedi" and they refereed to themselves as "Jedi Warriors", so you get the need for the "Star Wars" references. Also, there was some awesome music in this movie; Boston, Dusty Springfield, Supergrass, Generation X and Swinging Blue Jeans to name a few.

All and all this was a pretty good movie. I would recommend it to anyone that was looking for something a little silly. Enjoy and don't forget the popcorn!