The Men Who Stare At Goats

This film has a great cast but a massive problem - it can't decide if it believes in this stuff or not.

The premise is that Ewen McGregor, an emotionally unstable journalist, has caught on to the idea that there's a New Age psychic division of the army that operate as "Non-Lethal Weapons" and try to resolve conflict by developing their hippie sides.

So...we have Clooney (check), Bridges (check), McGregor (check), Spacey (check)...and yet some kind of a mess. The film spends half the time sending up psychic phenomena, pretending the main protagonists are burned out PTSD hippies, and the other half trying to subtlety suggest that maybe they do have all the answers. 

Bets are hedged the whole way through the film, and that leaves you with a sense of detachment...have they got powers? Are they deluded hippie soldiers? Do I care? 

Watchable (I don't think these actors could avoid being watchable) . But not as funny as it thinks it is, or as clever as it thinks it is, or as satirical as it thinks it is. Or much of anything.

Meh.