Men Who Stare At Goats (minor spoilers)

[The Hypno-Toad]

Meh.

Forgot the basic rule of all adult comedies these days that aren't about drink and girls, the best jokes are in the trailer. As a comedy the principal 'joke' seemed to be saying Jedi a lot in a scene with Ewen in it.
It was almost as if they decided to make a serious movie about the subject and then lobbed a load of jokes at it when they realised the subject wasn't that interesting. Won't worry Ronson at all as I would imagine he's laughing all the way to the bank.

Clooney and Ewen made a very good double act though. Just a shame they didn't have any good jokes. And the freeing of both types of prisioner at the end was just a bit of wooley minded wet lefty point making of the worst kind.
Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey were both totally wasted and Spacey actually looked ill.

Poor. 3/10.

[Jasandjules]

Thank you for that, I was actually interested in seeing it based on the Advert, if however they are all the best jokes, then there is no need.

[dudleybloke]

i read the book about 3 years ago. it should have been possible to make a very funny film out of it.

[buggalugs]

It almost felt like some kind of nice, low key off beat comedy documentary thing, but then they tried to inject random bits of manufacutred-feeling story into it and rammed a bizarre holywood ending onto it.

[mat205125]

I still might have a look at it, but have heard many similar reports about this film. When I first saw the trailer, and Clooney, I rejoiced that there was another Coen Brothers film to watch ... sadly there wasn't

[Penny-lope]

Damn, I was going to see that too.

Oh well just wait till my mates down load it then.

[XitUp]

I liked it. But then I'm not too much of a fan of comedies about drink and girls.

[anonymous-user]

The Hypno-Toad said:

lots of stuff I agree with

Boring. Another well acted well filmed movie lacking a decent script. A bit pointless IMO.