The Men Who Stare at Goats

The first thing I want to say is that I'm sorry about the recent gap in the articles.  We're ironing out a schedule now to get the reviews to you, the viewers.  Also, I'm gonna start using a rating system on the movie reviews.  The best is See It, next is Riff It, followed by Rent It, and lastly Fuck It.  Now on to the review.


The Men Who Stare at Goats begins in 2003 with journalist BobWilton (Ewan McGregor) narrating about how life has seeming turned its back on him.  He lost his wife to his editor, and feels as though he is now adrift at sea.  Bob decides that as a journalist during war, he should head over to Iraq to help expose what's going on.  There he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) who after a brief chase tells Bob that he worked for the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion.  Lyn explains that this was an army battalion that used psychic powers in the missions they were given.  Bob, not wanting to miss out on a story like this, decides to follow Lyn as he goes on a mission into Iraq.


I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie.  Watching George Clooney refer to the First Earth Battalion as "Jedis" and even making jokes with Ewan's character as "I can see you have a bit of Jedi in you.  Trust me, us Jedi can see our own."  Jeff Bridges also is a great job playing Bill Jango, the sargent of the First Earth Battalion.  While in this role he seems to get back to his Big Lebowski roots as a laid back guy, and it works for him.  Kevin Spacey, playing the villian of sorts, does just that.  In every scene he's in, Spacey's character is an asshole to someone or everyone else in it.  There are a few scenes that Spacey reminds me of him from his role in Superman Returns as Lex Luthor. 


Overall I'd give this film a rating of:  See It.  Go if you have chance, you'll enjoy it.