Good Portrayal of the War and of Chris Kyle

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2015)

This is based upon a true story
Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) was a Navy Seal Sniper with the most kills ever and was nicknamed "The Legend." His wife Taya (Sienna Miller) is fearful that she will lose Kyle as he keeps going back to the war.
We have all heard that wars change people. This may be a case in point. From the movie we get the impression that Chris Kyle always felt guilty when he came home as his "brothers' were fighting and dying thousands of miles away and he wasn't there to protect them. Nothing Taya could do could shake him from that period of isolation he kept himself in.
The war scenes were brutal, and sometimes quite bloody as we learn about a Taliban sniper who liked to use a drill on his enemies and this included children. That was some heart wrenching scene. When someone is shot we see the blood spurting out at times.
The home scenes were much quieter with Taya not making much progress to "get her husband back."
This movie should tell Bradley Cooper to stay away from unfunny, raunchy alleged "comedies" as he became Chris Kyle and he raised his game to new heights. In a true story we really never know if everything we see is true or not, but Director Clint Eastwood gave us a pretty good scenario of what the war and the home front was like for Chris Kyle, and for Taya too. Chris kept to himself at home so that the images of war would not enter Taya's head and disrupt her life and he believed this protected her. For the most part I saw that Chris Kyle was very level-headed. If the war changed him, we really didn't see him go over the top.
There were 2-scenes whereby a child was involved as Chris Kyle took a bead on each one. And, it was here, at each time, that we gasped. Will he or won't he?
The acting all around was excellent. The cinematography was unbelievably good and most of the war scenes were filmed in Morocco. When Chris Kyle was getting to know Taya in that bar I was waiting for him to ask how she got the name Taya. Funny but that was what I was waiting for. Didn't happen. Whaaat?
Keep a box of Kleenex handy for the last few minutes of the movie. The tributes and funeral procession for Chris Kyle is impressive. Chris Kyle did 4-tours overseas with 150-kills, and that was more than any other sniper. He was truly a Legend. (9/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Bloody gore: Yes, at times. Language: Yes.