Art Bell/George Noory gone Hollywood! Hilarious!

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2010)

If you are sane, but you have still listened to Coast-to-Coast AM with either Art Bell, or his heir, George Noory, you will feel right at home watching this festival of the ludicrous! Yes, it's scary to realize that there really are people who believe seriously in this crappola, but it's outrageously funny at the same time! Clooney is so darn good at putting his crackpot character across that he almost has you believing he is what he believes he is, a "Super Soldier" with "Jedi" powers! It's all here: remote viewing, astral projection, the death touch, greeny whackos, mind enhancement using LSD, etc. What a hoot! Bridges is great as the officer who succeeds in actually getting the US Army to back his hippie training program. MacGregor is also perfect as the gullible ne'er-do-well desperate to believe in something greater than himself, but taking all the wrong turns to find it. Spacey is menacing as the proponent of the "Dark Side" of the force. The director has learned much from the Coens, and this is definitely their sort of movie, so if you like the Coens, you'll like this! A lot of people don't seem to get this film, but that's OK. I loved it! The only down side was that it began to take itself seriously toward the very end, but let's hope that was actually all tongue-in-cheek. I suppose with all this zaniness, you have to have a point to bring the film to a proper close. Enjoy!