"The Goat" is a 23-minute silent black-and-white comedy movie from 1921, so not too long anymore until this one has its 100th birthday. Unfortunately, there is nothing really new to see hear what we do not see in other Keaton films. It started promisingly when Keaton gets mistaken for a dangerous criminal, but the rest of the film is just more of the same. The very young Virginia Fox plays Keaton's love, but this storyline does not even start until way in the second half of the film. It feels really rushed and I wonder if they for once could not have done without a love story that added pretty much nothing to the film, even if it maybe only would have run for 16-18 minutes this way. Joe Roberts is the main antagonist again this time, however not a bad guy, but a police captain who is after Buster despite Buster being actually completely innocent. Of the crimes that is, certainly not for the chaos he causes. The actual bad guy is played by Buster's co-writer and co-director here, who is, for a change, not Edward F. Cline this time. Not a great watch in my opinion. Buster has better works out there.
Review of The Goat
