Ewan McGregor is a failed Hollywood actor,his first stint,a life less ordinary was his first instance with a smugness that has filtered down through all his work when he believes his hype,any argument suggesting otherwise is simple,its his work with Danny Boyle on Trainspotting and Shallow Grave,there is very little else to redeem himself with.This review is more Ewan that "Goats",as he is its failure,a nerdish smugness and a complete lack of effort and over reliance on a boyish charm that has gotten him this far,but when sitting along side George Clooney,its inconceivable to expect natural charisma to play against his dry mouthed american accent,which is odd,he pronounces every sylabell with a grin,that can rip any tension, humour or life from a charachter that he can ever try to build.
Anyway,Goats is simply buffalo soldiers with no grounded reality and a reliance on the name actors to be funny with a script so dull the reason the poster features just four actors faces is....really it,its has 4 people who have the confidence to think they can make unfunny words work though sheer will,Kevin Spacey living off hype now 10 years old,a charming Jeff Bridges and an ageing but playing to it George Clooney,are in a film together that is really about nothing has no real statement to make about anything,has a repeated Star Wars joke that is not amusing,and it knows it,there is a self referential tone throughout,of we know its not great but come on Ewan McGregor doesn't know what a Jedi is!....he! come on LAUGH!.Thats it really,a charmless endeavour and proving that Ewan needs to do "Porno" soon
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