The comedy whose title takes up almost a paragraph is nothing more and nothing less than an original adaptation of the novel by Jon Ronson, a filmmaker and journalist who writes on Scottish gonzo journalism to dupe his readers' attention. In this raid, Men Who Stare at Goats , Ronson tells a comic version of trivia about the U.S. military, and curious enough to investigate ... but the truth, if the book suggest that there is enough punishment, the film stops being a heap, which could be clearly predecessor film Three Kings and a comedy of the 90.


The story chronicles the adventures of Bob Wilton ( Ewan McGregor ), a journalist disillusioned with his life after he abandoned his wife for the editor of its publication. Full of rage is going to Kuwait to investigate issues of the war in Iraq and here he meets a group of U.S. Special Forces claim to use parapsychological techniques for spying. Such techniques are, apparently, techniques of invisibility, disappearance of clouds, through walls, mind reading, intuition and trigger heart attacks goats through the mind ...

Yes, as it sounds, all crazy. But sadly has its basis in reality. Many of the stories told in the movie are based on the initiative of an American colonel who wanted to reorganize the U.S. Armed Forces under the spiritual tendencies of the New Age . Apparently part of the military budget spent on it, and am not sure how far it seems that investment remains above mentioned techniques, because as pointed to the discovery that American intelligence using Sesame Street songs to torture and interrogate terrorists .

Maybe there's a lot of American culture that can get to one of the orbits, but the fact that you are investing your tax budget for certain things should not be very good reception (even more serious may be to invest in war .) Still, the film critic for everything it seems, no longer anything but a joke without any kind of approach as original as the one with the work in which it is based.

Asy f is a movie to watch and funny in several situations, but the second half is tedious due to a tidy little narrative structure. In fact, if not by the number of stars who leave their charisma in the film (underlining the comic work of all: Jeff Bridges , George Clooney , Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey ), the film, as presented, would not have gone further far from being an "anecdote." Okay, that ultimately the book is more than just a story too, but of course, the satirical treatment of the tape is in simple and pure comedy, when it had really missed something as original as they did The Coen Brothers in Burn After Reading: A satirical film (not funny) that you passed both good and bad times and, above all, make you think.