Was there such a Perspective to Look at Comedy i didn Knew it...!!!!

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2010)

This film is about a journalist who goes to Iraq to find his ultimate story to prove to his wife the value of existence. He then travels with an eccentric ex American secret agent who claims to have supernatural abilities. The story follows a broken-hearted journalist (McGregor) who goes on the job to Iraq to prove to his ex-wife he isn't weary and a loser. There, he meets Lyn Cassidy (Clooney) who is a "psychic" soldier for the US government, trained by his paranormal hippie instructor Billy (Bridges) to use his mind, peace and love to overcome sublime military situations. The story is about adventure of two men together. It is a mix of comedy, action, drama and sci-fi. The plot is a mix of collection of different aspects, few may think it to the level of confusion but actually the script does all the justice to the movie.
Great and different way to look at comedy, with a lot of clichÃ© towards sci-fi and technology. The movie is essentially broken down into I'd sections first where the story is all about a loser journalist and his small world, second where he travels all the way down to Iraq to prove his life worth and gain back his wife's confidence, this the part where the actual plot and the comedy resides, later part containing the climax which I think was not just. All the critical jumble of a tickling, idiotic, eccentric comedy seemed to be undercut somehow, 'Watch people fall down, get run over, and laugh' stunts, and a painfully disjointed plot which didn do much towards the plot but where hilarious though. Rather, the movie featured more of a direction: an ill-defined, ill-conceived mission toward which two characters (Clooney's Lyn Cassady and McGregor's Bob Wilton) floated. The problem with the loose plot development, in this case, is that Clooney's chemistry with McGregor feels forced and their connection in the film equally contrived Gregor is too mature for that role I guess while Clooney is perfect for such movies as always. I can say the movie has admirable situational ironies.
Most of the movie contains flashbacks, beginning with Iraq War 2003 coming down all the way back to the beginning of New Age warfare.I thought the structure was not that convincing, but done really well. Flashbacks involving Jeff Bridges and Clooney help add comic relief during some of the straighter scenes in the film and also at times are used to rack up the tension and reveal interesting insights. It is of course up to your interpretation if the flashbacks are 100% real, because they are told from the point of view of Ewan McGregor, recounting stories that were told to him by Clooney. This sorts out another common criticism that the film is extremely unrealistic, but there are some key scenes saying that Clooney might not be telling the whole truth that I feel have been overlooked. Anyhow its worth watching with comedy point of view
My rating 7.3 out of 10.