A waste. VERY anti-American.

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2015)

SUCKED. SUCKED. SUCKED. What a horrible film. I hated "American Sniper". It was full of subtle and not so subtle anti-American jabs. I didn't know Chris Kyle. But if he was pro-American I think he would say the movie SUCKED. SPOILER: Basically you see a "cowboy" meet a girl. He was raised to protect his little brother. He gets trained as a seal.... that part was probably realistic. During the war he kills a child and you see the enemy kill a child because he's there. He's supposedly there to protect his buddies... and in real life I'm guessing that was very likely true. But they have subtle hints to make you question things. He gets screwed up... becomes kind of like a robot soldier personality and is distanced from his wife and children. His little brother basically says screw the war and looks very mentally screwed up. His close friend dies and at his funeral his mother reads a letter his friend wrote questioning being in the war. His other friend has a bad head injury and says basically screw hooyah... then dies in surgery. The guy finally makes it back to his wife and kids after four tours and is messed up but being out of the war and no longer protecting his buddies or our country and no longer killing little kids and fighting Iraq .... he manages to heal. Now he's "back" for his wife and kids. But some screwed up soldier kills him. So yes, that is true. But the whole movie is very anti-American. I am GOOD at detecting subtle crap and this was so full of subtle anti-American crap. Shame on Clint Eastwood and let's all send anti- American leaders some popcorn cause I'm sure they love this movie. Ugh. While our country is not perfect, don't put out a supposedly pro-American film and then trash our nation.
Regarding cinematography and pacing it's fair. Honestly it's not that good in that department either. The acting is good to excellent.