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‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’’ prompts an obvious question: Will there in fact be any goats stared at in this movie? And, if so, by whom and to what end? The answers – yes; George Clooney; to kill them by remote heart attack as part of a top-secret military initiative – are deliciously absurd even if you don’t know they’re based at least partly in historical truth.
You can’t make this stuff up, but you can botch the telling of it, and that’s what sinks this satiric drama based loosely on a 2004 nonfiction book by London-based journalist Jon Ronson. What could have been a shaggy-dog “Dr. Strangelove’’ for our times falls prey to a first-time feature director, an unfocused script, and a lead role that’s both underwritten and miscast.
Not Clooney; he’s fine. Actually, his Lyn Cassady – a rogue US Army psychic warrior – is the sort of part tailor-made for this star: supremely confident, a little nuts, primarily reactive. Clooney works best when there’s a Normal for him to bounce off; here that Normal is journalist Bob Wilton, a fictional stand-in for Ronson who (unlike the author) is American and who’s played by British actor Ewan McGregor with a vaguely East Coast accent that should never have made it through Customs.
It’s the early days of the 2003 Iraq invasion, and Wilton is trying to embed himself in-country to prove his macho bona fides to an ex-wife who couldn’t care less. The journalist meets Cassady, who’s posing as a