Réalisation:
Grant HeslovScénario:
Peter StraughanPhotographie:
Robert ElswitMusique:
Rolfe KentActeurs·trices:
George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Robert Patrick, Waleed Zuaiter, Glenn Morshower, Tim Griffin (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Bob Wilton, journaliste, est à la recherche de son prochain sujet lorsqu'il fait la connaissance de Lyn Cassady, un étrange personnage qui prétend faire partie d'un département top secret de l'armée américaine. Cassady affirme que la New Earth Army changera la manière dont on fait la guerre. Ces « moines guerriers » possèdent des pouvoirs psychiques sans précédent : ils sont capables de lire les pensées de l'ennemi, de traverser les murs, et même de tuer une chèvre rien qu'en la regardant... Mais le fondateur de ce programme, Bill Django, a disparu, et Cassady a pour mission de le retrouver. Intrigué par les histoires abracadabrantes de Cassady, Bob décide de l'accompagner. Les deux hommes remontent la piste de Django jusqu'à un camp d'entraînement clandestin dirigé par le médium renégat Larry Hooper. Le journaliste se retrouve vite piégé dans une lutte sans merci entre les forces de la New Earth Army de Django et la milice personnelle de super soldats de Hooper. Pour survivre à cette aventure déjantée, Bob va devoir tenter de garder un coup d'avance sur un ennemi très particulier... et faire appel à toutes ses facultés mentales ! (Sony Pictures Releasing France)
(plus)Critiques (6)
I liked it in parts, but overall it’s a bit too hokey. We are supposed to believe more things than we are willing to admit. It smacks of buck-passing to me given Heslov's inability to wring more than a chewing goat, George’s sparkling gaze, and a laughing field base out of this subject and the perfectly typecast actors. It has its moments... and you'll find them all in the trailer. Which is too bad.
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There are movies that have a solid and clear opinion, such as the anti-war musical Hair, the political satire Wag the Dog, or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which mercilessly mocks conformity and hypocrisy. Then there are movies that don't have a strong opinion because their sole purpose is to create maximum fun, like Tropic Thunder or Borat. The Men Who Stare at Goats is perfectly cast and occasionally has really successful jokes about the army and others. But I really don't know what the opinion is, what the film is actually conveying, and from where and to where it is heading. Meanwhile, the subject has the power of a hydrogen bomb and could have given birth to a top-notch satire that could rival the most famous films in its genre. Both superpowers during the Cold War really did have a crazy military program that tried to use parapsychology and all those crazy ideas, predicting the future, levitation, and God knows what else. And on both sides, this was sincerely hated and despised by rational-thinking military experts and politicians. Yet it seems like the screenwriter took a hit of marijuana or licked LSD and because it's so hazy and saturated with New Age nonsense, the feeling of a top-quality film, unfortunately, didn't arrive. Overall impression: 60%. If the peak humorous scene was supposed to be the drugging of a military base with a strong dose of LSD, then the screenwriter is a fool, because something like that could have ended in a crazy massacre...
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Too bad it doesn’t hold together better, but there are so many great moments in The Men that Stare at Goats that we are happy to forgive the couple that are just “too weird". The cast is first-rate (Clooney and McGregor balance each other perfectly) and it’s just a shame that the authors didn’t squeeze milk the chosen topic of “Jedi warriors" a tiny bit more. There is certainly cult potential in the movie. La tutlek. Ana sahaffi.
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This movie is going to make me go crazy. I gave it three stars the first time, because I was entertained by the individual scenes in the movie theatre, but as a whole it just didn't impress me. Then I read the book, got mad at the filmmakers, and lowered my rating by two stars. And now I watched The Men Who Stare at Goats again... And I liked it. Too much, even! I don't know what it is, I really don't...__P.S. Rolfe Kent is definitely one of my favorite contemporary composers.
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A great cast, catchy music and a funny title - that's all I would give to this film that is both original and incredibly stupid. Somehow it just didn't grab me and the humour there went a hundred metres beyond me. Too bad!
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I didn't retain many memories of the film, but I knew I enjoyed it. Seeing it now for the second time, I realized what I enjoyed so much about it. It's the absurdity of the big story and how it's presented. The performances only add to the absurdity, which is a good thing, because a great group of actors came together here. I had a great time even the second time around.
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