I don't know know about you, but when I hear Ewan McGregor's cod-American voice pipe up as the film's narrator, it bodes ill for quality control from thereon. And so it proves, when his journalist character takes himself off to Iraq to seek out a big scoop and gets one in the shape of psychic experiments taking place within the US military. That it's all loosely based on real facts is by-the-by since it veers unsteadily like a truck on a potholed desert road from comedy to political comment to pathos, none of which it does convincingly.
Clooney, Spacey and Bridges are also there with a selection of their stock personages, and you wonder why except to conclude that it must have been a quiet time of year and maybe the shoot was a blast. Meanwhile, for the viewer, it's all about as diverting and pointful as doing the crossword.
4/10
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