screenplay too disjointed..

Rating: 2/10 (16 November 2009)

The script should had one narrative, it is all over the place. It should have focus on one of the following things, the war in Iraq, Bob Wilton's mid life crisis, Lyn's issues, the Psychic brigade's history. It is very scattered. I think the movie was badly cast. Jeff Bridges wasn't the right person to be Colonel Django character. I think even George Clooney wasn't that great as Lyn Cassaday. They should had went with a younger cast. It would had been a better film if they set the time frame from Vietnam to the late 1980s to early 1990s.
I also have a problem with Lyn's constant plot twist, which changes the direction of the movie. It is better, just make this an surreal "Road to Iraq" movie, (ie like the Crosby and Hope's "road to..." movies) than the need to explain for most of the film about the Earth Corp's history to lead up to the film's climax.
Spoiler Alert
I always feel that the use of LSD in films just doesn't work. I thought the use of it in this film was more of a cop out.
The film and story had potential, and it could had been really funny, but it went off in too many directions, and at the end it just ran out of steam. It is a waste of time and money