When a journalist, Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), meets the mysterious Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), he stumbles on the true story of how the US Army created a special unit of new-age warriors, trained to use such psychic powers as mind-reading, walking through walls and killing goats just by staring at them. Hilarious! Bizarre! Unbelievable? No, not really. For starters, the film's opening disclaimer, that more of this is true than you'd believe, makes you wonder: well, how much is true? Fearing that facts might spoil the fun, Peter Straughan's screenplay evades such awkward questions. Meanwhile, performances are disappointing. Clooney with a clipped moustache is always a mistake, and Jeff Bridges is in The Big Lebowski mode again. Too shallow for satire and not funny enough for comedy, the infantile Goats is really just a silly absurdist movie trying to pass for an antiwar film.
15, 93 mins