One of the Most Over-rated Films of 2014

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2015)

Wow! I was looking at all the records this movie broke- highest-grossing Eastwood film, biggest ever January opening, etc..- all that AND it's $300 million-plus domestic box office take, and I'm sorry, I just don't get it.
I got around to seeing this in a theater earlier this year (and it was jam-packed in there!), and good movie and all, but I couldn't help thinking the whole time- glorified TV movie-?? I don't know what exactly drove American audiences to see this movie in the crazy masses they did- patriotism, Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, or just all the attention it got-?? Conservatives claimed it as their own, and director Eastwood came out and said it had nothing to do with all that- that it was an anti-war film- especially about the problems war brings onto the home front. Bradley Cooper is definitely really good in the titular role as Chris Kyle, but not my favorite film/performance of his to date even. You know..I think I'd rather see the REAL story of Chris Kyle- the one showing where he made some of those controversial comments, and his treatment of his wife. Hmmm....isn't THAT the real American story-??? LOL