Good movie, Just not as great as everyone thinks.

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2015)

I was a little disappointed by American Sniper. I figured that Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper were going to be a perfect combination for this movie, but it didn't reach my expectations. Cooper was great as he often is and although he likely won't win an Oscar for this performance it will go down as one of his greatest. Chris Kyle just had such an incredible and difficult background to jam into a 2 hour movie and I felt that they were trying to rely too much on the action and not enough on the drama, although there the action was overused it was displayed well. There is also no development for any of the other characters in the movie. It seems like Kyle was the only character in the movie that mattered. I was glad that they incorporated the effects of PTSD during this movie, but his struggles needed to be a bigger component of the movie rather than just portraying him as a hero who was unstoppable and invincible. The last 20 minutes were the past of the movie that were the best.