Worth the Watch

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2015)

Reading through so many reviews on here and it is simply making my blood boil. Most of them, I have found to be more personal opinion based on the guys actual life and/or profession and their personal views on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, that any movie review is completely obscure. The reviews are in fact more propaganda than the movie in which they are reviewing.
So here is MY movie review: #1. This movie is a typical "War" Movie. It has action scenes that are filled with suspense that will keep you engaged. #2. The Role of Chris Kyle was convincingly played throughout most of the film. #3. Director Clint Eastwood, does take an artistic view and adaptation of Chris Kyle's Autobiography, American Sniper, to which I think shares between a 50 and 60% likeness to the book. #4. The ending of the movie, does evoke emotion and admirable respect for a man who would have died for his country, brother frogmen, and the Marines that he frequently provided overwatches for.
I think that the movie would have been better had they stayed more with Chris Kyle's words, than with these artistic directions that had augmented the story toward more of a propaganda role. He shouldn't have made Chris' decision to join the military in response to political causes, but should have acutely and astutely shown us that Chris had always been a patriot and had been considering the military as a viable career option even before he joined up with the rodeo.
Even with these things, the movie is still worth the watch.
It is important to know before watching that this movie isn't about convincing anyone over the political aspects of the Iraq war. It isn't about why we got into the war or whether it was justified or not. And I think that is just as well, because in life, Chris Kyle didn't really care if it was a "justified" war, or a politically correct war, as some would want to judge it as. For him, the U. S. Government, called him into war, pulled him out onto the front lines to perform the job that the government has trained him to do, which is to kill enemies of our nation and of our soldiers. He put it very clearly. He didn't care about a single Iraqi. He wasn't over there to protect them, or to bring democracy to their nation. He was there to save the butts of the Marines, Army and other SEALs from immediate harm and/or certain death.
I have found it odd over the months that so many people empathize more with 160 people he killed than the unknown quantity of American lives that he has saved. It wasn't killing or the thrill of that made him shoot. It was saving the lives of his team, Marines, and Army, anyone he was watching over. They lived because HE had their backs. Every time he killed an Iraqi with an RPG, he brought home another soldier to their family. That is why he didn't want to quit. He found it intolerable to stand on the sideline and watch his brothers die, especially when he had the ability to save them.
People are content with labeling him, and sure at times all labels apply from the right perspective. But I am sure that the service men, he helped to save, I bet their families are forever grateful that he didn't hesitate to pull that trigger.