Peculiar and downplayed comedy

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2010)

Recap: After his wife left him for his boss, journalist Bob Wilton goes to Middle East to become an embedded journalist to prove himself. There he coincidentally meets Lyn Cassady, a name that popped up during an interview Bob did a while ago. That interview was about a man claiming to possess psychic powers that he learned during his years in the army. Bob thought him to be crazy at first, but when Lyn appears, and continually uses the "evolved tactics" Bob can't dismiss the story anymore. The men team up and goes on a mission in Iraq, guided by nothing but Lyn's psychic powers.
Comments: A peculiar movie, a rather good comedy actually, but not in the common sense. There are no real jokes, no one liners and no over the top acting. Instead every character is dead serious about anything in the they tell in the movie. But as most of it is odd at best and quite bizarre at worst it is quite funny to follow.
Although not as good, my mind went to another Clooney movie, Burn After Reading (2008). I kind of got the same feeling while watching the movies in the sense that they was rather funny without really having any real jokes.
The Men Who Stares at Goats do entertain through the run of the movie, but it didn't leave any kind of big impression on me. It has a good cast but don't really utilize it fully. A quality actor like Kevin Spacey seems to get lost in the story a bit. Mainly it is only about McGregor and Clooney.
Well, fun for the moment, but nothing more.
6/10