I wasn't expecting much from this and I was still disappointed.

Rating: 2/10 (4 July 2011)

The film is supposed to be a comedy but it takes itself seriously, far too seriously.
The book is based on what the American army researched and tried in the field of psychic warfare during the cold war, it puts all the documented experiments and projects that were found with interviews from the soldiers involved together in a tight bundle of ridiculousness.
The film uses some of the stories from the book but all the ridiculousness, and humour, is drained from the stories in the film.
The book needed a narrative to work, and that will change things from the book, that's all good. But the narrative didn't need to be so dull! Did they really need a clichéd villain?
The film implies the psychic power experiments were successful and the powers were real and useful and this means they aren't funny, a lot of the humour in the book came from pointing out the insanity of the military establishment that came to believe they were seeing something when all the evidence says it was just wishful thinking.
The opening sequence involving trying to walk through a wall comes straight from the book and acted out is much funnier than merely reading it, it gives an idea of what the film might have been but unfortunately that is the high point of the film.
This isn't even light entertainment, it is just dreary and dull.