Thursday, November 5, 2009
Film This Week in Film: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Posted by Lindy West on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM
George Clooney: magnificent idiot.
You can forget about Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler and all the rest: George Clooney is the best actor in the world if you're looking for someone to play a credible idiot. A George Clooney idiot is shallow and utterly self-involved, but he is a complete person—a complete, shallow, self-involved person. Traditionally, Clooney has saved his best idiots for the Coen brothers—his doltish performance in Burn After Reading is a masterwork—but Clooney's Lyn Cassady, the psychic warrior who drives the plot of The Men Who Stare at Goats, gives his best fools a real run for their money.
Read Paul Constant's whole review HERE.
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