The Men Who Stare at Goats
Struggling reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be from a unit of psychic soldiers who have been reactivated for duty.
5 March 1957, Miami, Florida, USA
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
23 April 1981, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
30 June 1983, Minnesota, USA
17 January 1966, Paraguay
31 March 1971, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
5 November 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
November1977, New York City, New York, USA
7 October 1983, San Diego, California, USA
6 November 1952, Reno, Nevada, USA
28 April 1937, al-Awja, Iraq
30 June 1964, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
10 October 1986, Dallas, Texas, USA
September 30, 2011
The oddity of its subject matter can't quite find a suitable groove between weird believability and preposterous put-on.
November 09, 2009
It's a disappointment.
November 06, 2009
This is grizzled, wild-eyed Clooney, not the suave sophisticate, and it's a nice change of pace.
February 03, 2011
A genuinely funny film packed with acting talent (...) well worth 90 minutes of anyone's time.
March 05, 2014
It's Heslov's sarcastic, assuming tone, not the actors, that makes Goats so intolerable, and it begins immediately with the opening credits.
July 06, 2010
All in all, Goats would have been groaningly familiar, even back in the 1960s.
November 09, 2009
Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good time, but this one looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch.
September 24, 2012
Even at a brief running time of 87 minutes, the film feels stretched, leaving you as "the person who blankly stares at the screen"...until it's finally over.
October 21, 2010
The Men Who Stare at Goats makes [True Lies] seem like a sensitive and balanced take on American/Middle Eastern relations.
November 06, 2009
If this is what a Hollywood liberal conscience looks like, it's a glib and useless thing.
January 31, 2011
although Clooney's charm factor helps Cassady rise above the caricatures created by the rest of the cast. ... it won't necessarily elevate a mediocre film into one worth watching.
November 06, 2009
The narrative flips and flops ruin the comedic flow.
