The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 comedy film based on the novel written by Jon Ronson five years earlier.

Directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan the film takes a humorous look at military gone wrong, in the form of soldiers believing they had psychic powers.

With a start studded cast, The Men Who Stare at Goats begins with a journalist, Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), who flies to Iraq to investigate the Iraq War in an attempt to produce an acclaimed piece of journalism.

Alonghi travels he bumps into Special Forces operator, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who reveals he was part of an American army unit training psychic spies.

Referring to the m as ‘Jedi’s’, Cassady then goes on to reveal how they were taught to perform cloud bursting, walking through walls, and intuition.

Meanwhile, the founder of the unit, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), clashes with two of his best recruits, Lyn Cassady and Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), who developed a lifelong rivalry because of their opposing views of how to implement the new philosophy they have all discovered.

From here, the movie goes on a comical journey throughout the Iraq War and with the class of Spacey, Bridges and Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats does well despite the mediocre plot.

In summary, the film will provide you moments of laughter, but also times of lameness and annoyance and at the overboard story line.

The Men Who Stare at Goats is screening now around cinemas in Australia.