Goat Boy.

Rating: 5/10 (10 August 2015)

After a friend kindly gave me the chance to read Jon Ronson's fascinating book The Psychopath Test,I decided to take a look at what else Ronson had written,and I was surprised to discover that one of his books had been adapted for the big screen,which led to me getting ready to out-stare a goat.
The plot:
Getting dumped by his wife for his one-armed editor, journalist Bob Wilton decides to escape by going to Iraq to report on the war for the newspaper.As starts making notes on his first report,Wilton runs into a retired army general called Lyn Cassady.
Asking Cassady about his role in the army,Wilton is caught by surprise,when Cassady tells him that he was part of a secret psychic spies black ops group,which was set up by the US government after army officer Bill Django's years of research over how the troops can take the enemy on in a peaceful manner,in the post- Vietnam era.Since Django has not been seen in years,Wilton decides to go in search of him,whilst Cassady continues to give more info over the psychic spies secret missions.
View on the film:
Taking a pick & mix approach to Jon Ronson's excellent book,the screenplay by Peter Straughan takes the more lightly comedic elements from Ronson's book as tracking for an easy-going road movie.Whilst the running round in the desert road movie skits allow director Grant Heslov to do some charming slap-stick set pieces,the satirical aspect of the title feels extremely restrained,due to Straughan and Heslov pulling the movie back to safe ground when it threatens to take a more darkly satirical view at the psychic spies War on Terror