Men Who Stare at Goats, The

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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