A great and timely movie.

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2016)

This is a great movie. The complaints that it stereotypes Muslims and presents them as one dimensional are in themselves stereotypes. The West is at war with Islam but such is the political correctness within the West that the West cannot even define Islam as the enemy. This movie captures perfectly the lacuna between the values of Islam and the West: there is no compromise or overlap in values. Islam makes this plain time after time. Chris Kyle is one small cog in this battle and he personifies what it will take to defeat Islam. The sacrifices he makes in respect of his personal life do have a element of cliché about them but this lack is more than compensated for by the verisimilitude of the battle scenes. Further poignancy to the movie is that Kyle's murderer was at the very least sympathetic to Islam even though there is no evidence that he had converted.