One Paragraph Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats

I would have enjoyed this movie far more if I had opted to never see it, and instead just re-watched the promising trailer. Clooney, Spacey, Bridges, McGregor + absurdity = How can this possibly go wrong? Well, somehow it did, and it is a massive disappointment. It's hilarious for a few seconds at a time (most of which are included in the trailer), but those moments simply don't come often enough. Most of the film sort of trudges along, sometimes abandoning its direction and picking a totally different one. In the end, this film isn't consistently amusing, but feels too absurd to be taken seriously.