The Men Who Stare at Goats

No goats. No glory.

Allegedly based on some truths, this film takes a look at a secret US army unit that was trained to use psychic powers for military purposes. A journalist investigating the story tries to cover the Iraqi invasion, but is restricted to Kuwait until he accidently hooks up with a star from the secret military program, who takes him under his wing and into Iraq on a covert operation. Reviews have been mixed.

94 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language).
Comedy, War, On the art circuit

Guess who got the goat.

Credits

Cast	George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Robert Patrick
Director	Grant Heslov
Screenplay	Peter Straughan, from the book by Jon Ronson
Music	Rolfe Kent
Cinematography	Robert Elswit
Editing	Tatiana S. Riegel
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in	2009
Produced by	BBC Films, Smoke House, Westgate Film Service, Winchester Capital Partners

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Frequent, strong
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Infrequent, mild
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Kenneth Turan A thinking man's farce	10
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Paranoïese prent is wel sporadies heel plesierig	10
Cape Times David German Sunk by a scattershot plot	5
Box Office Amy Nicholson Good reviews and great word of mouth are fighting for this flat-out fantastic film.	18
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert	18
eye Weekly Adam Nayman	10
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Nowhere as boring as the titular activity but clearly not as funny or entertaining as it could have been and certainly thinks it is.	8
Metacritic.com 33 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 185 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Though The Men Who Stare at Goats is a mostly entertaining, farcical glimpse of men at war, some may find its satire and dark humor less than edgy.	10
What the People say
Internet 24817 Netizens A good film, but not without its flaws	13
Average .. 56%	11