The Men Who Stare At Goats

by Grant Heslov (Director)

DVD, 2012

Call number

DVD-DRAMA 257

Collection

Publication

Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment (2010), Edition: No enhanced packaging

Description

Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Familiar_Diversions
Bob is an investigative journalist who goes to Iraq in an effort to prove something to both himself and his ex-wife, who left him for his editor. While there, he meets Lyn Cassady, a man who he realizes is connected to a guy he thought was a crackpot, who'd claimed to have once been part of a
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secret military project devoted to psychic abilities. Figuring that a huge story has potentially just fallen into his lap, Bob decides to join Cassady on his mission and learn more about the secret military program he was part of.

I remembered the commercials for this being pretty good when the movie first came out, but I never got around to seeing it. Unfortunately, the commercials were the best bits. My sense of humor and this movie's comedy did not mesh. I found this to be more weird than funny, and honestly kind of boring.

I had a tough time caring about the characters and what they were doing, and the flashbacks to the creation and downfall of the New Earth Army were only vaguely interesting.

All in all, not really worth the time and effort it took to watch it.

Extras:

Featurettes, audio commentaries I didn't listen to, character bios (which I think were used as trailers for the movie), and deleted scenes.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
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UPC

013132137193
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