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Men Who Stare at Goats, The

 

USA 2009, 90 minutes
Dir. Grant Heslov
Rating: [M]
Genres: Comedy / War

Topics: Mind-bender.

 

Aroview: George Clooney stars as a tell-all Special Forces operative in this mind-boggling, fact-based military farce based on the U.S. Army’s attempt to train soldiers in the psychic art of killing goats, among other telepathic skills.

Reaching for the off-beat style of humour cultivated so successfully by the Coen brothers, dir. Heslov’s movie delivers as a hilarious comedy-of-the-absurd, though is perhaps found wanting as a would-be war satire. Some truly out-there performances by the cast, however, compensate for the lack of comedic edge or smarts, with Jeff Bridges in particular a hoot as a wigged-out Vietnam vet not far removed from his memorable turn as ‘The Dude’.

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • deleted scenes
  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • aspect ratio: 2.35:1
 

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