The Men Who Stare at Goats

Here’s an interesting movie. A stacked cast, a quirky script, biting satire of the military industrial complex… and all based on a true story? Well, that was the pitch anyway.

I had to check it out just because of the tag line: “No Goats. No Glory.” In the end, the movie is as uneven as its Netflix reviews, which range from “headed for cult status” to “shockingly unfunny,” might suggest. Though I might point out to the latter reviewer that satire isn’t always laugh-out-loud funny.

This movie is worth seeing for at least two reasons: (1) to see George Clooney staring at things and (2) to form your own opinion of one of the strangest movies of the decade.

The Men Who Stare at Goats on Netflix