Comedy

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Ruby Films

BBC Film

Smokehouse Pictures

Overture Films

UK Film Council

Mandate International

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

George Clooney

Ewan McGregor

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Spacey

Robert Patrick

Stephen Lang

Waleed Zuaiter

Stephen Root

Glenn Morshower

Nick Offerman

Tim Griffin

Rebecca Mader

Jacob Browne

Todd Lawson LaTourrette

Brad Grunberg

Elsa Villafane

Fawad Siddiqui

Samuel Ray Gates

McCaleb Burnett

Robert Curtis Brown

Hrach Titizian

Shafik N. Bahou

Christopher Maher

Matt Newton

Kevin Wiggins

JJ Raschel

Arron Shiver

Jaime Margarida

William Sterchi

Drew Seltzer

Donn Lamkin

Sean Curley

Michael-David Aragon

Morse Bicknell

Kevin Geer

Chick Bernhard

Steve Witting

Diego Serrano

Grant Heslov

Jon Ronson

Peter Straughan

Mónica Monserrate

Marcia Calosio

Amahl Lovato

Edward Tise

Adam Barth

Pablo Prietto

Jeff Kunkle

Ian Calip

Jim Swidarski

Matthew Iadarola

Mark Mangini

Dean St. John

Andy Malcolm

Goro Koyama

Caoimhe Doyle

Christian Prejza

Devon Miller

Al Goto

Ed Duran

Bobby Burns

Pat Banta

Bobby Beckles

Alan D'Antoni

Jorge Cisneros

Ramon Frank

Vince Deadrick Jr.

Scott M. Helgert

Drew Leary

Jaime Irizarry

Erik Martin

Jalil Jay Lynch

Anthony Molinari

John Prudhont

Peewee Piemonte

Merik Tadros

Jay Spadaro

Mark Aaron Wagner

Edward Conna

Loyd Catlett

Paul Lister

Rolfe Kent

Robert Elswit

Tatiana S. Riegel

Cathy Sandrich Gelfond

Amanda Mackey

Sharon Seymour

Peter Borck

Louise Frogley

Martial Corneville

Ken Diaz

Waldo Sanchez

Jay Wejebe

David Webb

Andrew Petrotta

Robert Jackson

Piero Mura

George Simpson

Christopher T. Welch

Kevin Harris

Thomas J. Smith

Jeffrey Lee Gibson

Colin Anderson

Laura Magruder

Rick Thomas

Deborah Andrews

Tom Cummins

Ali Lammari

Richard Schoen

Linda Cohen

Tony Blondal

Nick South

Elizabeth Himelstein

Coraly Santaliz

Barbara A. Hall

James A. Holt

Alison Owen

David M. Thompson

Ellen Gordon

John R. Saunders

Luillo Ruiz

Michelle Lankwarden

Charlene Olson

Jim Passon

Mariant Medina

Peter McGinn

Considering the star power here (Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey) I can understand why people might feel somewhat disappointed when they watch it. I mean, the description even mentions the Coen brothers as a basis for comparison. With Jeff Bridges' role, it was difficult not to think of The Big Lebowski, but this film isn't of that caliber.

Still, I thought it was entertaining most of the time. There were slow interludes that could have been removed to improve the pacing without harming the story. But if you understand that they aren't going for laugh out loud gags or one-liners, but rather they work for their punch lines or leave you to figure out where the joke is, maybe you can appreciate it more.

I will say that the plot seemed a bit disjointed to me. The flashbacks weren't confusing, but in a slower paced film like this one, I think they were sometimes more of a distraction than plot-enhancers. The ending also had an air of an anticlimax to it, like - oh, okay. I guess it fit the laid back mood of the rest of the movie, but they might have done more with it.

Still, I liked it. Enough said.

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