So this is the film based loosely, but not too loosely, on the book by Jon Ronson about the psychic arm of the American military. They are the men of the title, and they just so happen to stare at goats (See, the title fits) and try to kill them.
The book is about the use of “New Age” techniques by the US military and how they could apply the paranormal for military purposes. It’s a very good book, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The film takes the content of the book, the fun anecdotes and such, and puts them in to what is essentially a buddy/road movie with George Clooney, Ewan McGreggor Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey.
Whilst the film and the book both start in the same place, an army general attempting to pass through a wall, they split there as the film changes the book’s author Jon Ronson for Ewan McGreggor’s Bob Wilton. Wilton is a newspaper reporter who is in Kuwait, trying to cross the border into Iraq. Whilst at the hotel he meets George Clooney’s Lyn Cassady and they go on a mission into Iraq. Laughs ensue as they get into and out of trouble, and the story of the Psychic Spies (Or Jedi as they are often referred to) is old in a series of flashbacks.
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