The force is strong with this one

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2010)

In "The Men Who Stare at Goats", Ewan McGregor is our eyes and ears into a non-fiction but bizarre story. He is an everyman and without him we wouldn't be able to get into this incredulous tale.
It's about Jedi Warriors, or psychic spies, who believe they have superpowers and use them to fight wars. This is the New Age Army, formed by Jeff Bridges as a hippie. Imagine the army run by a hippie. Yes, it is that good.
George Clooney is the Jedi Warrior who tells the story to McGregor, who then relays it to us, mostly through flashbacks. They might spend a bit too long with Clooney and McGregor in present-day Iraq (well the Iraq desert at least), but that is part of the story.
The humour is weird, dark, low-key, slow at times and very Coen Brothers-like. Not everyone shares this sense of humour. But for those that do, I recommend "The Men Who Stare at Goats". As McGregor says about Clooney, and I'm expanding it to the film, "the force is strong with this one."