3 KICKS FOR YOU

Title: Men who stare at goats

Dir: Grant Heslov

Written By: Peter Straughan and Jon Ronson

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan MacGregor and George Clooney.

It sounds like shit. US ARMY investing vast amounts of stacks into a psychic unit? But like that Ping Pong show in Thailand you don’t actually believe it until it happens and then you get the “WTF mate” look on your face. It leaves you chuckling and playing with your neck like you just survived going down on Helen Zille.

Bob Wilton [Ewan MacGregor] is a prodigious, under-valued journalist working a dead end job in podunk USA –Ann Arbor Michigan- He spends his days interviewing Coffin dodgers with more cats than brain cells and kooks who claim to have been psychic spy’s in the US Army.

Shit fucks out. Good ol’ Wife his old lady proves that yeah she’s a slapper and fucks his boss, causing Wilton to reach the end of his tether. He then throws caution and a series of pregnancy tests against the wind and heads out to Iraq to find his unicorn story. Iraq’s spectacular and war-torn, Kuwait on the other hand is hot and humid and docile, and where Wilton finds himself, until he meets the infamous Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney) who happens to be the greatest Pyschic warrior in the history of the New-Earth Army. A Section of the US Army dedicated to enhancing the potential of the human mind and body through psychic powers. “WTF MATE?”

I shit you not –this is based on a true story by the way- Clooney goes to town in this one and pulls out a showstopper which will have you in stitches and stroking your upper lip in sheer jealously.

Wilton and Cassidy set out on a mission into the heart of Iraq to try and establish as to whether or not Cassidy’s full of crap and find that breakthrough story Wilton’s been craving for so long. It’s hilarious and somehow manages to capture the monotonous Middle Eastern desert as mystical and not just fuckin hot.

The film’s a knockout comedy, but kind of goes thin on narrative and muddles a bit too much in the theory of, but then again anything to do with Pyschic warriors has to kick all kinds of ass.

Suspiciously funny and at times unforgettable, “Men who stare at goats” is definitely one to see and preferably during the day so you can go outside once it’s done and try explode clouds.

I give it 7 Hoers

So young.