Eka Herlyanti
Cute title and a bit funny and mysterious. The cinematography is good. But I didn't really get the story. I guess this movie wants the war and any kind of violence to end? I wonder if that kind of power shown in this movie does exist. And why goats? That one goat in the end of the movie looked angry. What's wrong with him?
ebiros2
After seeing this movie, I could only surmise that it's some kind of disinformation film to make jokes out of what is commonly known as remote viewing. The movie portrays remote viewers as army's attempt to train soldiers to be new age hippies (seriously). From what I've read the real remote viewers were deadly effective (otherwise the government wouldn't have funded them for 23 years). But if the effectiveness of remote viewing was really conveyed, it would be disclosing one of the closely guarded secrets of US military operations. So my take after seeing the movie is that it was created to be a disinformation campaign to make the world believe that this is what remote viewing is about. None of the characters in the movie could do remote viewing. As if it didn't exist. And maybe that's the real message this movie wanted to convey.
morrison-dylan-fan
After a friend kindly gave me the chance to read Jon Ronson's fascinating book The Psychopath Test,I decided to take a look at what else Ronson had written,and I was surprised to discover that one of his books had been adapted for the big screen,which led to me getting ready to out-stare a goat.The plot:Getting dumped by his wife for his one-armed editor, journalist Bob Wilton decides to escape by going to Iraq to report on the war for the newspaper.As starts making notes on his first report,Wilton runs into a retired army general called Lyn Cassady. Asking Cassady about his role in the army,Wilton is caught by surprise,when Cassady tells him that he was part of a secret psychic spies black ops group,which was set up by the US government after army officer Bill Django's years of research over how the troops can take the enemy on in a peaceful manner,in the post- Vietnam era.Since Django has not been seen in years,Wilton decides to go in search of him,whilst Cassady continues to give more info over the psychic spies secret missions.View on the film:Taking a pick & mix approach to Jon Ronson's excellent book,the screenplay by Peter Straughan takes the more lightly comedic elements from Ronson's book as tracking for an easy-going road movie.Whilst the running round in the desert road movie skits allow director Grant Heslov to do some charming slap-stick set pieces,the satirical aspect of the title feels extremely restrained,due to Straughan and Heslov pulling the movie back to safe ground when it threatens to take a more darkly satirical view at the psychic spies War on Terror
punishmentpark
A good-hearted film; funny, witty, with some actual criticism that works undercover of a crazy, but (partly) true story. Clairvoyance and such have been much tried to put to use while trying to rule a kingdom at the same time all throughout history, so why shouldn't the Americans and / or the Russians have a go? But the point is that - beside the point of this intelligence being real or not - there are always forces that will take it too far, or simply abuse it. Here, this force is named Larry Hopper, fortunately with the Jedi on his tail.Though I found the story a little dull and easy at times, it's overall entertaining and in its better moments even surprising and touching. I'm beginning to think I'm not much of a fan of McGregor, but I can't say I think he's a bad actor - the same goes for Spacey, I suppose. Bridges, Clooney and Lang were my favorites here. Filmicly, it was not at all superior, but not bad either.A meager 7 out of 10.
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