Well I liked the overall theme, it had some great ideas but can't say the same about the execution

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2009)

This movie is based on a true story, but over exaggerated and a lot of it is made up. Well supposedly there is a special section of the government that works with psychic warfare. A reporter Bob Wilton(Ewan McGregor) who is fired from his last job and is dumped by his girl friend and has a very dull life ahead of him, gets a opportunity to go on a life changing journey when he goes to Iraq and report in order to prove himself. When he stumbled onto a special forces operator, Lyn Cassady(George Clooney) and decides to get a story out of it instead of the war in Iraq. Since Lyn Cassady supposedly has the powers of a Jedi Knight and they milk this joke for everything it got. Anyways from there Lyn Cassady's past is revealed when he was still working with psychic warfare and how he was the golden boy of the trainings and operations, while they go on a wacky unknown mission in Iraq. And while this is going on Bob Wilton is trying to figure out if Lyn Cassady is being legit or not. The parts where theses supposedly psychic soldiers try to demonstrate remote viewing and the power to kill something such as hamsters and goats by just staring at it, was actually pretty hysterical to watch. Like I said before there is a lot of Jedi jokes thrown in which is funny and repetitive but didn't feel that tedious. I also liked the direction where they went with this, where it isn't sure if Lyn Cassady is a telling the truth about his powers or if he is just nuts. I am sure he was nuts in the story and most of the audiences will agree, but I liked the direction they went with this. However it just wasn't that satisfying when it was finished since it lack the edgy to it, and went the more indie style comedy and it doesn't seem like the movie knew which direction to go with either. So I liked the overall theme and had some great ideas, but can't say the same about the execution.
6.9/10